$ cve CVE-2010-3131 JSON

CVE-2010-3131 EXPLOIT

9.3

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 22.9% (pctl 98)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

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.

Scoring

CVSS	9.3 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	22.86% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2010-08-26
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (3)

Vendor	Product
mozilla	firefox
mozilla	seamonkey
mozilla	thunderbird

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Mozilla Thunderbird - 'dwmapi.dll' DLL Hijacking	2010-08-25
exploit-db	Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 - 'dwmapi.dll' DLL Hijacking	2010-08-24

References

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