CVE-2015-7359

The 1 IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and 2 MountDevice methods in Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, do not check the impersonation level of impersonation tokens, which allows local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level an...

Code injection

The 1 IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and 2 MountDevice methods in Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, do not check the impersonation level of impersonation tokens, which allows local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level an...

CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

CVE-2015-7359

The 1 IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and 2 MountDevice methods in Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, do not check the impersonation level of impersonation tokens, which allows local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level an...

CVE-2015-7358

CVE-2015-7358 affects TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt (before 1.15), and CipherShed; the IsDriveLetterAvailable check in the Windows driver (Driver/Ntdriver.c) fails to validate drive-letter symbolic links, enabling a local attacker to remap a system drive and gain full privileges via the GLOBAL?? entry...

CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

CVE-2015-7359

CVE-2015-7359 concerns the Windows kernel driver in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt (before 1.15), and CipherShed. The flaw: IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and MountDevice do not validate the impersonation level of tokens, allowing local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level and access ...

TrueCrypt Encryption Software Has Two Critical Flaws: It's time to Move On

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