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CVE-2011-3640

Date: October 27, 2011

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Google Chrome before 17 on Windows and Mac OS X, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse pkcs11.txt file in a top-level directory. NOTE: the vendor's response was "Strange behavior, but we're not treating this as a security bug."

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3640
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3640
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-3640

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Untrusted Search Path

CWE-426

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): HIGH
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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