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CVE-2011-2019

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-12-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Server 2008 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 an HTML file, aka "Internet Explorer Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 9

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-347A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-099
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13884
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-347A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-099
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13884

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