Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse…

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse IEShims.dll in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a Desktop directory that contains an HTML file, aka "Internet Explorer Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

11.2% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 70833 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 46159 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100127294 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0318 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ms-ie-dll-code-execution(64913) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12270 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• MS11-003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FGA-2011-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1025038 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2011-0038](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2011-0038.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2011-0038)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 21:43 UTC.