CVE-2011-2016 (GCVE-0-2011-2016)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-11-08 21:00
Modified
2025-06-04 15:49
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Mail and Windows Meeting Space in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .eml or .wcinv file, aka "Windows Mail Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
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