CVE Database›Document archive›CVE-2020-14382

CVE-2020-14382

cryptsetup: Out-of-bounds write when validating segments

Loading…

Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

Review impact separately from score.

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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write