Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2011-3640 First vendor Publication 2011-10-27
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-04-11

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3640

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13414
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13414
Title: ** DISPUTED ** 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."
Description: ** DISPUTED ** 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."
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2011-3640
Version: 15
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s): Google Chrome
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14689
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14689
Title: DSA-2339-1 nss -- several
Description: This update to the NSS cryptographic libraries revokes the trust in the "DigiCert Sdn. Bhd" certificate authority
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2339-1
CVE-2011-3640
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): nss
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1940

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-02-11 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2339-1 (nss)
File : nvt/deb_2339_1.nasl
2011-11-11 Name : Mandriva Update for mozilla MDVSA-2011:169 (mozilla)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2011_169.nasl
2011-11-03 Name : Google Chrome Mozilla Network Security Services Privilege Escalation Vulnerab...
File : nvt/gb_google_chrome_nss_priv_escalation_vuln_macosx.nasl
2011-11-03 Name : Google Chrome Mozilla Network Security Services Privilege Escalation Vulnerab...
File : nvt/gb_google_chrome_nss_priv_escalation_vuln_win.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
76858 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) Trojaned pkcs11.txt File Local Privil...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_libfreebl3-111108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_nss-201112-111220.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_seamonkey-111130.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_libfreebl3-111108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_nss-201112-111220.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_4_seamonkey-111130.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201301-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-11-10 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2011-169.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-11-08 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2339.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
MISC http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483
SUSE https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432

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