CVE-2025-52555 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-52555: CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS

Vendor Ceph
Product ceph
Weakness CWE-269
Published June 26, 2025
Last update November 3, 2025

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 26, 2025 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated