CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS
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.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2025-52555
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 12:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CephFS Permission Escalation Vulnerability in Ceph Fuse mounted FS
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 26 Jun 2025, 20:21 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2025-52555
Complete source record
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