Missing Authorization in udisks - CVE-2026-7867

 

Missing Authorization in udisks - CVE-2026-7867

Published: August 9, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU141379
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-7867
CWE-ID: CWE-862
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to missing authorization in the Filesystem.Mount D-Bus method handler when processing a caller-controlled as-user option for fstab-managed block devices. A local user can supply a spoofed as-user value to escalate privileges.

Exploitation requires an fstab entry for a udisks2-visible block device with at least one of the x-udisks-auth, user, or users mount options.


Affected software

udisks
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Anolis OS
openEuler
Ubuntu
udisks2 (Ubuntu package)
udisks2-lvm2
udisks2-lsm
udisks2-debugsource
udisks2-debuginfo
udisks2-btrfs
libudisks2-devel
libudisks2
udisks2
udisks2 (Debian package)
udisks2-doc
udisks2-iscsi
udisks2 (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2026-7867

Install security update from vendor's website.

udisks - update to 2.11.2
udisks2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.10.1-6ubuntu1.5, 2.10.91-1ubuntu2.1
udisks2-lvm2 - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2-lsm - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2-debugsource - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2-debuginfo - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2-btrfs - update to 2.10.1-10
libudisks2-devel - update to 2.10.1-10
libudisks2 - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2 - update to 2.10.1-10
udisks2 (Debian package) - update to 2.10.1-12.1+deb13u2
udisks2-lvm2 - update to 2.10.90-7
udisks2-doc - update to 2.10.90-7
udisks2-lsm - update to 2.10.90-7
udisks2-iscsi - update to 2.10.90-7
udisks2 - update to 2.10.90-7
libudisks2-devel - update to 2.10.90-7
libudisks2 - update to 2.10.90-7
udisks2 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.11.0-2.el10_2.1

External References

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