CVE-2011-5155: Helpandmanual Help & Manual

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Help & Manual 5.5.1 Build 1296 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse ijl15.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .hmxz, .hmxp, .hmskin, .hmx, .hm3, .hpj, .hlp, or .chm file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Helpandmanual Help & Manual: version 5.5.1 only

Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.