CVE-2011-1056

CVE-2011-1056 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Metasploit Framework 3.5.1 installer on Windows. The installer creates the Metasploit installation directory with weak inherited permissions, allowing a local attacker to replace critical files with malicious ones. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.