MEDIUM 4.3 Microsoft

CVE-2021-4122

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2022-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2022-08-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-03
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3 was published on 2022-08-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 cryptsetup 2.3.7-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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