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CVE-2015-4053

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-4053 describes a vulnerability in ceph-deploy versions prior to 1.5.25 where the 'admin' command sets world-readable permissions on the /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring file. This allows local users to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information. With a CVSS score of 2.1, this is a low-severity vulnerability, requiring local access (AV:L) with low attack complexity (AC:L) to achieve a partial confidentiality impact (C:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ceph:ceph-deploy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ceph-deployFixed in: 1.5.25
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for CentOS
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ceph-deploy-0:1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el6cp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ceph-deploy-0:1.5.22-0.4.rc1.el7cp
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.2 for Ubuntu
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.1Fixed in: ceph-deploy

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-79jf-ccm8-43w7low

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

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2015-4053Moderate

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

May 21, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1092.html
tracker.ceph.com / issues/11694
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/04/09/9
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/05/22/1
securityfocus.com / bid/74775