VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4484

medium
Published 2017-01-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The Debian initrd script for the cryptsetup package 2:1.7.3-2 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to gain shell access via many log in attempts with an invalid password.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
arch Arch Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:1.7.3-2
sid Fixed 2:1.7.3-2
forky Fixed 2:1.7.3-2
bullseye Fixed 2:1.7.3-2
bookworm Fixed 2:1.7.3-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cryptsetup_projectcryptsetup{"endIncluding":"2.1.7.3-2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.