Luksmeta: data corruption when handling luks1 partitions with luksmeta
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 99% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A data corruption vulnerability has been identified in the luksmeta utility when used with the LUKS1 disk encryption format. An attacker with the necessary permissions can exploit this flaw by writing a large amount of metadata to an encrypted device. The utility fails to correctly validate the available space, causing the metadata to overwrite and corrupt the user's encrypted data. This action leads to a permanent loss of the stored information. Devices using the LUKS formats other than LUKS1 are not affected by this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Latchset · luksmetaRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23086https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18421https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18824https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11568https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404244https://github.com/latchset/luksmeta/pull/16