Bug 2374412 (CVE-2025-52555)

Summary: CVE-2025-52555 ceph: privilege escalation by unprivileged users in a ceph-fuse mounted CephFS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: amctagga, aoconnor, bniver, flucifre, gmeno, martin.hecht, mbenjamin, mhackett, security-response-team, sostapov, vereddy
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A vulnerability in Ceph was discovered whereby an unprivileged user could change the permissions of a directory owned by the root user, gaining access to the targeted directory. The non-privileged user can escalate privileges to root in a CephFS mounted with ceph-fuse by applying chmod 777 (read, write, and execute for all users) to any directory owned by root. This allows the user to read, write, and execute to that directory even if they were not the original owner. The vulnerability could potentially allow a user to gain unauthorized access or modify critical system data.
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Bug Depends On: 2374416, 2374417, 2375687, 2375688, 2374414, 2374415    
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Deadline: 2025-06-26   

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-23 21:33:47 UTC
A non-privileged user can change the permissions from a directory owned by the root user an can gain access to the targeted directory.

Comment 3 Martin Hecht 2025-07-14 20:21:13 UTC
Question: Is this limited to the fuse-client, or are mounts via systemd unit affected, too?