CVE-2011-3640
HIGH · CVSS 7.1EPSS 1.4%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-426
- EPSS score
- 1.4% (73th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-3599)
- Published
- October 28, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-3599 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / macos
- google / chrome
- microsoft / windows
References
- http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861(Broken Link)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13155432(Broken Link)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13414(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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