CVE-2007-1738: Truecrypt Foundation Truecrypt

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

TrueCrypt 4.3, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of service (filesystem unavailability) or gain privileges by mounting a crafted TrueCrypt volume, as demonstrated using (1) /usr/bin or (2) another user's home directory, a different issue than CVE-2007-1589.

Affected products

• Truecrypt Foundation Truecrypt: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only

Published 2007-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.