CVE-2012-4755 — 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

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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

Published Sep 6, 2012

6.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.40%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.40% 0.00401

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

EPSS probability 0.00401

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	0.40% (0.00401)	31.92th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.40% (0.00401)	31.63th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00054)	14.21th	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	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/47921
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.scitools.com/support/buildLogs/understand26_build_log.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2012-5071.php
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/47921		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.scitools.com/support/buildLogs/understand26_build_log.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2012-5071.php		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 6, 2012

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Sep 6, 2012

Link CVE-2012-4755

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-4755

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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