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CVE-2012-2040 Details

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.20 and 11.x before 11.3.300.257 on Windows and Mac OS X; before 10.3.183.20 and 11.x before 11.2.202.236 on Linux; before 11.1.111.10 on Android 2.x and 3.x; and before 11.1.115.9 on Android 4.x, and Adobe AIR before 3.3.0.3610, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in an unspecified directory.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00006.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00007.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-14.html CVEVendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00006.html [email protected]Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00007.html [email protected]Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-426Untrusted Search Path[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-2040
NVD Published Date:
Jun 9, 2012
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2012-2040 Details - Not Deferred