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…
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- redhat
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 37 days later
· 37 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0063 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0030 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 8483 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13414 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_transferred
- http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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