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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Volume mounting is inherently local; PR:L applied because interacting with disk encryption middleware requires some system-level access, inconsistent with PR:N.
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CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
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CPSD CryptoPro Secure Disk for Bitlocker before v7.7.4 fails to properly handle decryption errors and allows encrypted volumes to be mounted as plaintext.
AnalysisAI
CryptoPro Secure Disk for BitLocker before v7.7.4 silently falls back to plaintext volume mounting when a decryption error occurs, negating the entire confidentiality guarantee that BitLocker is meant to enforce. Disclosed publicly at Black Hat USA 2026 in research titled 'The Cost of Obscurity' (Burch), the flaw demonstrates how improper error handling in encryption middleware can fully undermine the security layer it wraps. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the Black Hat presentation and accompanying whitepaper are publicly available, substantially lowering the knowledge barrier for exploitation; EPSS stands at a low 0.17% but may shift as presentation details circulate.
Technical ContextAI
CryptoPro Secure Disk for BitLocker is enterprise encryption middleware from CPSD (Austria) that extends Microsoft BitLocker with additional authentication and volume management capabilities. The vulnerability is catalogued under CWE-329 (Not Using a Random IV with CBC Mode), which points to a cryptographic implementation weakness in CBC-mode cipher block operations. When a decryption operation encounters an error - potentially triggered by key mismatch, malformed input, or an invalid initialization vector - the software does not fail securely (a 'fail-open' condition); instead it mounts the affected volume as plaintext, fully exposing protected data. The NVD CPE entry is recorded as cpe:2.3:a:n/a:n/a, indicating the product has not been formally catalogued in the NVD CPE dictionary, which limits automated detection and asset inventory matching. The ENISA EUVD entry is EUVD-2025-210712. All versions prior to v7.7.4 are confirmed affected by the CVE description.
RemediationAI
Upgrade CryptoPro Secure Disk for BitLocker to v7.7.4 or later; this is the vendor-confirmed patched release identified by the CVE description's explicit 'before v7.7.4' boundary. Vendor release notes and advisory details are accessible at https://www.cpsd.at/blog/. If immediate patching is not feasible, apply the following specific compensating controls: restrict or firewall any network-accessible management service exposed by CryptoPro Secure Disk to authorized management hosts only, which reduces the remote attack surface without eliminating the underlying flaw; enable host-based auditing to alert on unexpected plaintext volume mount events, providing detection capability until the patch is applied; and limit interactive access to hosts running the affected software to privileged administrators, reducing the local exploitation window. Note that none of these controls fix the underlying error-handling failure - they only reduce exposure. Organizations should treat any unpatched deployment as providing no effective encryption guarantee under error conditions.
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EUVD-2025-210712
GHSA-prr5-fjmj-wf2h