CVE-2011-3640

high

Published 2011-10-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

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."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1`

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endExcluding":"17.0"}`	`17.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-426

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.