Description
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.
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Timeline
| 2026-01-28: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2026-02-25: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26104
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433717 (RHBZ#2433717)