Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1281

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-23 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 22:48:13
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application directory", as demonstrated with the USP10.dll, RichEd20.dll, NTMarta.dll and SRClient.dll DLLs.