CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-2183
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-05-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Truecrypt 4.1, when running suid root on Linux, allows local users to execute arbitrary commands and gain privileges via a modified PATH environment variable that references a malicious mount command.
Affected configurations
• truecrypt foundation truecrypt 4.1
References
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-April/003152.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19903 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/25131 Patch
- http://www.truecrypt.org/history.php Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1591 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26191 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-April/003152.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19903 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/25131 Patch
- http://www.truecrypt.org/history.php Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1591 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26191 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com