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CVE-2021-4122
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-08-24T16:15:09.427 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:19:04.270

Summary

It was found that a specially crafted LUKS header could trick cryptsetup into disabling encryption during the recovery of the device. An attacker with physical access to the medium, such as a flash disk, could use this flaw to force a user into permanently disabling the encryption layer of that medium.

Affected products

cryptsetup_project — cryptsetup

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References

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