CVE-2011-2016

HIGH

Microsoft Windows Vista-7 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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."

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14028

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0810
EPSS Percentile 94.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

Status published
Products (4)
microsoft/windows_7 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_server_2008 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_server_2008 r2 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista
Published Nov 08, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026