CVE-2020-14382
cryptsetup: Out-of-bounds write when validating segments
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 3, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
A flaw was found in the way cryptsetup parses encrypted images with invalid segments. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash an application compiled with cryptsetup, or in some cases, cause arbitrary code execution when parsing specially crafted encrypted images. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
Statement
This flaw was introduced in upstream release cryptsetup-2.2.0, with the inclusion of the LUKS2 re-encryption code. This feature is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, therefore it is not affected by this flaw.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write