CVE-2012-5378

published 2012-10-11

CVE-2012-5378: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActiveTcl 8.5.12, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to…

Priority P4 23 medium 6 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC H Au S C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActiveTcl 8.5.12, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the C:\TD\bin directory, which is added to the PATH system environment variable, as demonstrated by a Trojan horse wlbsctrl.dll file used by the "IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules" system service in Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 Release Preview.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
activestate	activetcl	—	—

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