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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2022-3650 json

A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph.

published 2023-01-17 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-43009

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph. Ceph-crash.service allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to root in the form of a crash dump, and dump privileged information.

Patch / fix

  • ceph Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 16.2.10+ds-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3650

  • ceph Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 15.2.17-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
  • ceph Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3650

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ceph-mgr ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-rook ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-cephadm ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-dashboard ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-k8sevents ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-modules-core ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp
  • ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local ceph storage 5.3 2:16.2.10-138.el8cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:0980

  • ceph SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 +2 more 16.2.11.58+g38d6afd3b78-150400.3.6.1
  • ceph Enterprise Storage 7.1 16.2.11.58+g38d6afd3b78-150300.3.6.1
  • ceph-test openSUSE Leap 15.4 16.2.11.58+g38d6afd3b78-150400.3.6.1
  • ceph SLE Real Time 15 SP3, SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 16.2.11.58+g38d6afd3b78-150300.5.7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:1581-2SUSE-SU-2023:1584-1SUSE-SU-2023:1581-1SUSE-SU-2023:1580-1

  • ceph Azure Linux 3.0 18.2.1-1
  • ceph CBL-Mariner 2.0 16.2.10-3

azure linux advisories AZL-38137AZL-39295

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-3650 updated cvss 8.8

Ceph: ceph-crash.service allows local ceph user to root exploit

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, ceph-mon, +15 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 ceph, librbd1, librgw2, rbd-nbd, ceph-mds, ceph-mgr, +27 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ceph
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 ceph
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON ceph-mgr 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-rook 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-cephadm 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-dashboard 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-k8sevents 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-modules-core 16.2.10-138.el8cp, +1 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD ceph-mgr-debuginfo 16.2.10-138.el8cp Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools ceph-mgr-debuginfo 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-debuginfo 16.2.10-138.el9cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0980
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON ceph 16.2.10-138.el8cp, cephadm 16.2.10-138.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-138.el8cp, librgw2 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mon 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-base 16.2.10-138.el8cp, +15 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD ceph 16.2.10-138.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-138.el8cp, librgw2 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-osd 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-base 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-test 16.2.10-138.el8cp, +12 more Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools ceph 16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph 16.2.10-138.el9cp, cephadm 16.2.10-138.el8cp, cephadm 16.2.10-138.el9cp, librbd1 16.2.10-138.el8cp, librbd1 16.2.10-138.el9cp, +44 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 librbd1, librados2, libcephfs2, libradosstriper1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 librbd1, librados2 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) librbd1, librgw2, ceph-fuse, librados2, libcephfs2, python-rbd, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • seclists.org https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/41 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a Ceph

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-842 Placement of User into Incorrect Group

References

Sources

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