CVE-2022-3650 — A privilege escalation flaw was found in Ceph

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Ceph	unknown

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-03T18:08:01.727Z

09References

• seclists.org — https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/41
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-10