CVE-2020-25677: Ceph Ceph-Ansible

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Ceph-ansible v4.0.41 where it creates an /etc/ceph/iscsi-gateway.conf with insecure default permissions. This flaw allows any user on the system to read sensitive information within this file. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Affected products

• Ceph Ceph-Ansible: version 4.0.41 only
• Red Hat Ceph Storage: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2020-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.