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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-25677

A flaw was found in Ceph-ansible v4.0.41 where it creates an /etc/ceph/iscsi-gateway.conf with insecure default permissions. This flaw allows any user on the system to read sensitive information within this file. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:16 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-25677

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Dec 2020, 01:15 UTC

A flaw was found in Ceph-ansible v4.0.41 where it creates an /etc/ceph/iscsi-gateway.conf with insecure default permissions. This flaw allows any user on the system to read sensitive information within this file. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

osv:CVE-2020-25677
Complete source record
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