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CVE-2015-7359

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 and gain access to other users' mounted encrypted volumes.

Affected products

• Ciphershed: through 0.7.5.0
• IDRIX VeraCrypt: through 1.14
• Truecrypt: 7.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133877/Truecrypt-7-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/22/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/24/3
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=537
• https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Release%20Notes
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133877/Truecrypt-7-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/22/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/24/3
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=537
• https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Release%20Notes

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