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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.1 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2011-10-28

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-426

Affected products

• Chrome (Google)

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