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CVE-2011-5157

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.9)—

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Attachmate Reflection before 14.1 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, a related issue to CVE-2011-0107. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (5)

Attachmate — Reflection FOR HPAttachmate — Reflection FOR IBMAttachmate — Reflection FOR Regis Graphics ServerAttachmate — Reflection FOR Unix AND OpenvmsAttachmate — Reflection X

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