CVE-2006-2183: Truecrypt Foundation Truecrypt

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

Published 2006-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.