CVE-2016-1281

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1281

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1281.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1281

Published

2017-01-23T21:59:00.970Z

Modified

2026-03-12T22:14:09.813105Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/veracrypt/veracrypt

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/veracrypt/veracrypt

Events

Introduced

Last affected

8748013f7da850230369f5dfb6606ec1ae51e1c0

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.16"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

VeraCrypt_1.*

VeraCrypt_1.0a

VeraCrypt_1.0b

VeraCrypt_1.0c

VeraCrypt_1.0d

VeraCrypt_1.0e

VeraCrypt_1.0f

VeraCrypt_1.0f-1

VeraCrypt_1.0f-2

VeraCrypt_1.0f-BETA

VeraCrypt_1.0f-BETA2

VeraCrypt_1.0f-BETA3

VeraCrypt_1.12

VeraCrypt_1.13

VeraCrypt_1.14

VeraCrypt_1.15

VeraCrypt_1.16

VeraCrypt_Linux_1.*

VeraCrypt_Linux_1.0d

VeraCrypt_Linux_1.0e

VeraCrypt_Linux_1.0f-BETA

VeraCrypt_MacOSX_1.*

VeraCrypt_MacOSX_1.0d

VeraCrypt_MacOSX_1.0e

VeraCrypt_MacOSX_1.0f-BETA

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.1-a"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.2"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1281.json"