CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2521
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the WiresharkApplication class in ui/qt/wireshark_application.cpp in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.10 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse riched20.dll.dll file in the current working directory, related to use of QLibrary.
Affected configurations
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.0
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.1
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.2
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.3
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.4
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.5
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.6
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.7
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.8
• wireshark wireshark 1.12.9
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.0
• wireshark wireshark 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4a79cf2e1ab056faaddd252aa56520435b318a56 code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035118 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2016-01.html Vendor Advisory
- https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4a79cf2e1ab056faaddd252aa56520435b318a56 code.wireshark.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201604-05 security.gentoo.org