CVE-2011-3640 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3640?

CVE-2011-3640 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 28 Oct 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-426

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3640?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3640?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2011-3640 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3640 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3640, DSA-2339-1, GHSA-75w4-cpff-gxx5.