CVE-2011-3360

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 34.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 1.4.x before 1.4.9 and 1.6.x before 1.6.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Lua script in an unspecified directory.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 (+5)

References

http://osvdb.org/75347
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2324
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/5
http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2011-15.html
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6136
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737784
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15059
http://osvdb.org/75347
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2324
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:138

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