CVE-2007-1738 describes a local privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability in TrueCrypt 4.3 when installed setuid root. An attacker can exploit this by mounting a specially crafted TrueCrypt volume, leading to filesystem unavailability or gaining root privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring medium attack complexity. While not on the KEV catalog or actively exploited, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:truecrypt_foundation:truecrypt:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:truecrypt_foundation:truecrypt:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:truecrypt_foundation:truecrypt:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:truecrypt_foundation:truecrypt:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:truecrypt_foundation:truecrypt:4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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