CVE-2010-3131
HIGHEPSS 97th pctlDescription
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 on Windows XP allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a .htm, .html, .jtx, .mfp, or .eml file.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41095
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41168
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14730
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14783
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-52.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/513324/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2169
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2201
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579593
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12143
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