CVE-2026-50152Ceph Monitor subscription handler improperly authorizes config-key store reads, exposing cluster secrets to read-only users
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.25%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 84% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Ceph is an open-source distributed storage platform providing object, block, and file storage. In versions prior to 20.2.4 and 19.2.6, the Monitor subscription handler fails to properly authorize access to the configuration-key store, allowing any CephX user with only `mon allow r` capabilities to read the entire store by sending a single crafted MMonSubscribe message. The config-key store holds sensitive secrets including OSD LUKS disk-encryption passphrases and, on cephadm-managed clusters, the SSH private key that cephadm uses to reach every host in the cluster. Because that key grants root on every node under the default cephadm configuration, a low-privileged read-only account can escalate to full cluster and host compromise. This issue is fixed in versions 20.2.4 and 19.2.6
Timeline
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By GitHub_M
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
References
References3
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9p-5xcp-wm8h (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/d971bb2b6199f70b1708a20a63fa944ee7a94727 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/f2840d2fd338ab5de2865f0f78684bbf7b888c84 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-67274 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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