National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1338

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in XnView before 1.98.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse .exe file in a folder selected by the "Open containing folder" menu item.

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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External Source: XF

Name: xnview-library-code-execution(68369)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/68369

External Source: BID

Name: 48562

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48562

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 73619

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/73619

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 45127

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/45127

External Source: JVNDB

Name: JVNDB-2011-000050

Hyperlink:http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2011-000050

External Source: JVN

Name: JVN#17844633

Hyperlink:http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN17844633/index.html