A flaw was found in the udisks storage management daemon that exposes a privileged D-Bus API for restoring LUKS encryption headers without proper authorization checks. The issue allows a local unprivileged user to instruct the root-owned udisks daemon to overwrite encryption metadata on block devices. This can permanently invalidate encryption keys and render encrypted volumes inaccessible. Successful exploitation results in a denial-of-service condition through irreversible data loss.
CVE-2026-26103
Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-02-25. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
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- CVSS v3
- 7.1
- EG Score
- 7.1(medium)
- EPSS
- 0.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 25, 2026
Last Modified
July 15, 2026
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Jul 15, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-26103.json2433719 – (CVE-2026-26103) CVE-2026-26103 udisks: Missing Authorization Check Allows Unprivileged Users to Restore LUKS Headers via udisks D-Bus API
Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433719Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5831Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3476Missing Authorization Check Allows Unprivileged Users to Restore LUKS Headers via udisks D-Bus API · Advisory · storaged-project/udisks · GitHub
https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/security/advisories/GHSA-c75h-phf8-ccjmVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-26103(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:5831Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: udisks2 security update
- RHSA-2026:3476Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: udisks2 security update
- GHSA-fw7p-cggr-9xm6GitHub Security AdvisoriesHigh
A flaw was found in the udisks storage management daemon that exposes a privileged D-Bus API for...
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | udisks2-0:2.10.90-5.el10_0.2 | 2026-03-25 | redhat |
| redhat | udisks2-0:2.10.90-6.el10_1.1 | 2026-03-02 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 18× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 06:59 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-07-16 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-08 15:15 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-07 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 04:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 04:41 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-30 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
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