Re: Retrieving cephx key from ceph-fuse

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 2:07 PM Robert Vasek <rvasek01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is there a way for an attacker with sufficient privileges to retrieve the
> key by somehow mining it off of the process memory of ceph-fuse which is
> now maintaining the volume mount?

Yes, one should assume that if they can gcore dump the ceph-fuse
process, they can extract the cephx key.
In normal deployment scenarios only a root user should be able to do
this, and they would normally have the key anyway.

Cheers, Dan
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