National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0107

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .docx file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA11-102A

Name: TA11-102A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS11-023

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-023.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0942

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0942

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025343

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025343

External Source: BID

Name: 47246

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47246

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FGA-2011-13.html

Hyperlink:http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FGA-2011-13.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44015

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44015

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12655

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12655

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 71767

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/71767

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12655

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12655