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CVE-2011-2016

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Mail and Windows Meeting Space in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2,…

High7.3EPSS 8.3%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
microsoft

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Mail and Windows Meeting Space in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, 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 a .eml or .wcinv file, aka "Windows Mail Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2011-2016, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)3.1High7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
8.3% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.

Weakness

  • n/a
  • NVD-CWE-Other

Affected products

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    • affected n/a

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