CVE-2026-26103 describes a flaw in the udisks storage management daemon affecting freedesktop and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. This vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user to overwrite LUKS encryption headers without proper authorization. The attack has low complexity and requires local access, leading to a high impact of irreversible data loss and denial-of-service for encrypted volumes. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and public exploit code is unavailable, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:udisks:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.