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CVE-2015-4053 json

ceph-deploy uses world-readable permissions on client.admin key

published 2015-06-08 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-79jf-ccm8-43w7 , PYSEC-2015-3 , EUVD-2015-0003

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The admin command in ceph-deploy before 1.5.25 uses world-readable permissions for /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ceph-deploy 1.5.23, 1.5.25
  • ceph-deploy ceph storage 1.2 1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el6cp
  • ceph-deploy ceph storage 1.2 1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el7cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1092

  • ceph-deploy openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.5.34+git.1470736983.963ba71-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10213-1

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-2015-4053 updated cvss 4.3

ceph-deploy admin command copies keyring file to /etc/ceph which is world readable

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.1 ceph-deploy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for CentOS
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1631
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for Ubuntu
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1579
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage Installer 1.2 ceph-deploy 1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el6cp, ceph-deploy 1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el7cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1092
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 ceph-deploy
    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

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ceph-deploy
<1.5.25
<1.5.23
1.5.25
1.5.23

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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