{"cve":"CVE-2011-3640","nvd":{"published":"2011-10-28T02:49:53.130","modified":"2026-06-16T23:33:40.473","status":"Modified","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.\"","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-426"],"references":["http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html","http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426","http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8483","https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052","https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13154861"],"products":["google:chrome"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:59:31.623151214+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2011-3640","score":0.01395,"percentile":0.72412,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}