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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/commit/0113ac2d889c5322659ad0596d4cfc6da53e356c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v2.4/v2.4.3-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/commit/0113ac2d889c5322659ad0596d4cfc6da53e356c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v2.4/v2.4.3-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.3 · cryptsetup_projectNVD modified 2026-10-14 11:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:cryptsetup_project:cryptsetup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4122 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031859 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032401 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/commit/0113ac2d889c5322659ad0596d4cfc6da53e356c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v2.4/v2.4.3-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4122 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2031859 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032401 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/commit/0113ac2d889c5322659ad0596d4cfc6da53e356c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/cryptsetup/v2.4/v2.4.3-ReleaseNotes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html