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    CVE-2011-3640

    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."

    Published:Sep 23, 2011
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Oct 28, 2011
    EPSS Score:0.00366
    CVSS Score:7.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apple
    Product
    Macos
    Vendor
    Google
    Product
    Chrome
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows

    Exploits

    http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.htmlhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.htmlhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-38 Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths

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    References

    http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html
    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426
    http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
    https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861
    https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414
    http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html
    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426
    http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
    https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861
    https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High