CVE-2025-52555

CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 26, 2025 at 08:21 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCeph

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 18.2.5v < 19.2.3= 17.2.7
Affected range stops below 18.2.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 19.2.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUMGitHub_M
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-269

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