Security advisory

{
  "id": "203bb7fd1c13a9ae83a56c553856727ab028d79f1209c23b24df1047ea4d9e38",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4484",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-4484",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-4484",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-4484",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-4484"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ef8a7d82d8d3716ae9b58179590f7908981fa0cb"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "ef8a7d82d8d3716ae9b58179590f7908981fa0cb"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1_7_0",
            "v1_6_8",
            "v1_6_7",
            "v1_6_6",
            "v1_6_5",
            "v1_6_4",
            "v1_6_3",
            "v1_6_2",
            "v1_6_1",
            "v1_6_0",
            "v1_5_1",
            "v1_5_0",
            "v1_4_2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4484.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:39.122041977Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/commit/ef8a7d82d8d3716ae9b58179590f7908981fa0cb"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:cryptsetup_project:cryptsetup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "cryptsetup_project:cryptsetup",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.1.7.3-2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "last_affected": "1.7.3-2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "DESCRIPTION"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-4484",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379604,
  "published_at": "2017-01-23T21:59:01.533+00:00"
}