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

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 18.2.5, 19.2.3
- Published: 2025-06-26 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- ceph: from 18.2.1, fixed in 18.2.5; from 19.0.0, fixed in 19.2.3

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ceph, upgrade to a fixed version (18.2.5, 19.2.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/security/advisories/GHSA-89hm-qq33-2fjm
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/60314

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