{"id":"CVE-2011-2980","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-2980","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:22:14.401Z","title":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan…","description":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in the ThinkPadSensor::Startup function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access in an unspecified directory to place a Trojan horse DLL that is loaded into the running Firefox process.","published":"2011-08-18T18:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:32:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["mozilla/firefox","mozilla/thunderbird"],"epss":{"score":0.00297,"percentile":0.22156,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14436","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2980","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}