CVE-2006-7142
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe centralized management feature for Utimaco Safeguard stores hard-coded cryptographic keys in executable programs for encrypted configuration files, which allows attackers to recover the keys from the configuration files and decrypt the disk drive.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceUtimaco Safeguard (a disk encryption product) embeds hard-coded cryptographic keys directly into executable programs. These keys are used to encrypt configuration files, but attackers can extract the keys from the executables, use them to decrypt the configuration files, and then decrypt the entire disk drive.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 4.30CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check if Utimaco Safeguard is installedLook for installation directories (commonly C:\Program Files\Utimaco\Safeguard or similar), check installed programs list, or look for Safeguard-related services in Windows Services or Linux service listsAffected if Utimaco Safeguard disk encryption software is present on the system
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Identify the installed Safeguard versionCheck the version information of the Safeguard executable files or check the program's About/Version information through the installed software interface, typically found in the installation directory or Windows registry under the product entryAffected if The installed version is exactly 4.30
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Confirm the product is being used for disk encryptionVerify that Safeguard is actively managing disk encryption by checking if the Safeguard service is running and associated with encrypted volumes, or by reviewing the configuration for encrypted disk partitionsAffected if Safeguard is actively encrypting disk drives and uses configuration files for key storage
A system is affected by CVE-2006-7142 if Utimaco Safeguard version 4.30 is installed and actively used for disk encryption, since this version contains hard-coded cryptographic keys that can be extracted from the executables to decrypt configuration files and the disk.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataReplace hard-coded keys with properly managed cryptographic keys using a secure key management system (e.g., hardware security modules or enterprise key management), re-encrypt all affected disk drives with new keys, and verify configuration file encryption uses unique per-deployment keys.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2006-7142 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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