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Medium 4.1Published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-89169live-boot ff8867c allows attackers to bypass the dm-verity-enforce-roothash-signature protection mechanism when the .verity file is missing.
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live-boot ff8867c allows attackers to bypass the dm-verity-enforce-roothash-signature protection mechanism when the .verity file is missing.
- CVSS
- 4.1 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-347
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 11, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Debian live-boot debian:live_boot (from the name) | ff8867c4e2d62e497cb895b15b7d6d518d5adff1 | CNA record |
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1146422
- https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-boot/-/blob/ff8867c4e2d62e497cb895b15b7d6d518d5adff1/components/9990-overlay.sh#L112-114
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