CVE-2012-4755

medium
Published 2012-09-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in SciTools Understand before 2.6 build 600 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .udb file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.scitools.com/support/buildLogs/understand26_build_log.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/47921

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
scitoolsunderstand2.6

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.