Medium severity · published Jun 26, 2025
CVE-2025-52555
CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform. In versions 17.2.7, 18.2.1 through 18.2.4, and 19.0.0 through 19.2.2, an unprivileged user can escalate to root privileges in a ceph-fuse mounted CephFS by chmod 777 a directory owned by root to gain access. The result of this is that a user could read, write and execute to any directory owned by root as long as they chmod 777 it. This impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is patched in versions 17.2.8, 18.2.5, and 19.2.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 11% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CE
ceph · ceph
= 17.2.7; >= 18.2.1, < 18.2.5; >= 19.0.0, < 19.2.3 · source: vendor
Affected product
CE
ceph
ceph
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