CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-7359

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and MountDevice methods in Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed do not check the impersonation level of impersonation tokens, allowing local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level and gain access to other users' mounted encrypted volumes.

Risk Assessment

Local users can gain unauthorized access to encrypted data of other users, posing a serious threat to information confidentiality within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of VeraCrypt and to monitor and restrict access to systems to minimize the risk of unauthorized access.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS