CVE-2020-25678

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

A flaw was found in ceph in versions prior to 16.y.z where ceph stores mgr module passwords in clear text. This can be found by searching the mgr logs for grafana and dashboard, with passwords visible.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
ceph: before 16.2.0 — fixed in 16.2.0
Red Hat Ceph Storage: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ceph 16.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892109
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQTBKVXVYP7GPQNZ5VASOIJHMLK7727M/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-39
https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/37503
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892109
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OQTBKVXVYP7GPQNZ5VASOIJHMLK7727M/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-39
https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/37503

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