CVE-2011-2980
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 0.3% (22th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2948)
- Published
- August 18, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2948 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469(Patch)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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