High
Security advisory
modules/luksbootkeyfile/main.py in Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 has a race condition between the time when the LUKS encryption keyfile is created and when secure permissions are set.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-13178
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
modules/luksbootkeyfile/main.py in Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 has a race condition between the time when the LUKS encryption keyfile is created and when secure permissions are set.
osv:CVE-2019-13178
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q57BOTBA2J5U4GVKUP7N2PD5H7B3BVUU/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R2ZDQRGBGRVRW5LPJWKUNS3M66LZ3KYC/",
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835096",
"https://calamares.io/calamares-3.2.11-is-out/",
"https://calamares.io/calamares-cve-2019/",
"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/",
"https://www.pavelkogan.com/2015/01/25/linux-mint-encryption/",
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1835095",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726565",
"https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1190",
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