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."
CVE-2011-3640 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from google, from apple, from microsoft organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2011, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2011-10-28T02:49:53.130
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 7.1 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
3.9
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | chrome | < 17.0 | Yes | |
| Operating System | apple | macos | - | No |
| Operating System | microsoft | windows | - | No |
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