CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3640
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• google chrome (< 17.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861 Broken Link
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414 Third Party Advisory
- http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861 Broken Link
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432 Broken Link
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414 Third Party Advisory