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CVE-2012-5378

Severity Medium
Score 6/10

Summary

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.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • SINGLE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published