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CVE-2012-0305
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Symantec System Recovery 2011 before SP2 and Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 before SP5 allows…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.43%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Symantec System Recovery 2011 before SP2 and Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 before SP5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (2)
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120720_01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 54594 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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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