CVE-2026-53762

VeraCrypt provides disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt. Prior to 1.26.29, non-default builds created with WOLFCRYPT=1 and WOLFCRYPTBACKEND route SHA-256 and SHA-512 volume-header key derivation through derivekeysha256 and derivekeysha512 in src/Crypto/wolfCrypt.c, where the...

CVE-2026-53762

VeraCrypt non-default builds compiled with WOLFCRYPT=1 and WOLFCRYPT_BACKEND contain a key-derivation flaw in src/Crypto/wolfCrypt.c. The functions derive_key_sha256 and derive_key_sha512 discard the configured iteration count and substitute wc_HKDF for PBKDF2-HMAC , meaning increasing the PIM or...

CVE-2026-53762 VeraCryp: wolfCrypt backend bypasses VeraCrypt PBKDF2 iteration count (non-default WOLFCRYPT=1 builds)

VeraCrypt provides disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt. Prior to 1.26.29, non-default builds created with WOLFCRYPT=1 and WOLFCRYPTBACKEND route SHA-256 and SHA-512 volume-header key derivation through derivekeysha256 and derivekeysha512 in src/Crypto/wolfCrypt.c, where the...