HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-2519

.Net Framework vulnerability

CVSS
7.9
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Entity Framework in ADO.NET in Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 SP3, 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, and 4 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .NET application, aka ".NET Framework Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
.Net Framework
CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2012-11-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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