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
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.1
- EG Score
- 7.1(medium)
- EG Risk
- 32(Track)EG Risk 32/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity71% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 0%
- 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.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| udisks2 | 2.10.1-12.1 ... 2.11.0-2 (8 versions) | 2.11.1-1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 12× 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.
- 2026-09-19 13:02 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-31 16:34 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 21:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-14 21:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 09:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-14 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 01:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-13 01:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-13 01:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 23:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-11 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 06:23 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-08-11 06:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 08:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-10 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 20:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-09 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-09 08:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-09 08:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-09 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-08 08:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-08 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-07 20:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-07 20:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-07 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-06 13:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-06 03:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-06 03:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-06 03:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-04 05:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-04 05:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-02 19:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-02 19:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-08-02 19:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-24 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 03:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 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
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- 2026-07-11 08:27 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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