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CVE-2010-3131

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.11; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+84)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.6; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+45)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.6; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+62)

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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