CVE-2011-1738 — HP Palm webOS 1.4.5 and 1.4.5.1 does not properly restrict Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) applications, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging unintended filesystem write access

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HP Palm webOS 1.4.5 and 1.4.5.1 does not properly restrict Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) applications, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging unintended filesystem write access

Published May 13, 2011

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.49%

Description

HP Palm webOS 1.4.5 and 1.4.5.1 does not properly restrict Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) applications, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging unintended filesystem write access.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.49% 0.00488

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00488

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.49% (0.00488)	39.74th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.49% (0.00488)	37.93th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00072)	19.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47788
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025514
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02822174
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47788		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025514		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02822174		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner hp

Published May 13, 2011

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Apr 19, 2011

Link CVE-2011-1738

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2011-1738

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2011-1738