A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph.
Priority LOW 34CWE-842Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 3 fixed, 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
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.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.0033 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Partial Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 3 fixed, 4 without a fix
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Ceph | unknown | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Ceph Vendor— Affected unknown Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2023:0980 Released 2023-02-28 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Bug fix and security update
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON ceph-mgr-2:16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-cephadm-2:16.2.10-138.el8cp, ceph-mgr-dashboard-2:16.2.10-138.el8cp +4
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON | Fixed | RHSA-2023:0980 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD | Fixed | RHSA-2023:0980 |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools | Fixed | RHSA-2023:0980 |
Not affected: 6 products
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 MON
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 OSD
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 Tools
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-3650
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4mjm-gg3q-674f
- 2026-11-05 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
More Red Hat Ceph vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-32120 RGW DoS attack with empty HTTP header in S3 object copy CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2020-15677 Authentication bypass by capture-replay in ceph CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2018-05266 In Ceph before 12.2.3 and 13.x through 13.0.1, the rgw_civetweb.cc RGWCivetWeb::init_env… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-01045 Authentication bypass by capture-replay in Red Hat ceph CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2018-12099 Sensitive information in log files in ceph CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2016-04329 The handle_command function in mon/Monitor.cc in Ceph allows remote authenticated users… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2022-3650 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-3650 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4mjm-gg3q-674f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-3650 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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