CVE-2010-3181

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.13; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+88)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.8; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+46)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+66)

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-71.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589190
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12116
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-71.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589190
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12116

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