A flaw was found in the udisks storage management daemon that allows unprivileged users to back up LUKS encryption headers without authorization. The issue occurs because a privileged D-Bus method responsible for exporting encryption metadata does not perform a policy check. As a result, sensitive cryptographic metadata can be read and written to attacker-controlled locations. This weakens the confidentiality guarantees of encrypted storage volumes.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-862
Udisks: missing authorization check allows unprivileged users to back up luks headers via udisks d-bus api
Problem type
Affected products
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
References
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26104
RHBZ#2433717
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433717
JSON source
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