CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89169

MediumCVSS 4.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.11%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

live-boot ff8867c allows attackers to bypass the dm-verity-enforce-roothash-signature protection mechanism when the .verity file is missing.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could bypass system integrity verification, potentially leading to booting a modified operating system.

Recommendation

Update live-boot to a version containing the fix once available.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

live-boot ff8867c allows attackers to bypass the dm-verity-enforce-roothash-signature protection mechanism when the .verity file is missing.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS