CVE-2011-3360
Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—💥 Exploit
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Base score: 9.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 35%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
- Score date: 10/9/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
💥 Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Metasploit module (reliable, widely available exploit) · Wireshark console.lua Pre-Loading Script Execution
- Published on Exploit-DB · Wireshark - console.lua pre-loading (Metasploit) (11/19/2011)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-Other
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
- 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
Raw JSON (NVD)
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