9.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
7.1 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
48.9%
Google Chrome is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802339");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-11-03 12:22:48 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3640");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Google Chrome Mozilla Network Security Services Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641052");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97426");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/10/google-chrome-pkcs11txt-file-planting.html");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_google_chrome_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("GoogleChrome/MacOSX/Version");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let the local attacker to execute arbitrary
code with an elevated privileges.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Google Chrome version 16.0.912.21 and prior on Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an error in the Mozilla Network Security Services
(NSS) library, which can be exploited by sending Trojan horse pkcs11.txt
file in a top-level directory.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the Google Chrome 17 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Google Chrome is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
chromeVer = get_kb_item("GoogleChrome/MacOSX/Version");
if(!chromeVer){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less_equal(version:chromeVer, test_version:"16.0.912.21")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:chromeVer, vulnerable_range:"Less than or equal to 16.0.912.21");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}