CVE-2011-2016

Published Nov 8, 2011

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Mail and Windows Meeting Space in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .eml or .wcinv file, aka "Windows Mail Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
Source
secure@microsoft.com
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
9.3
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-085 'This is a remote code execution vulnerability.'
Solution
Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-085 'This is a remote code execution vulnerability.'

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