CVE-2010-3182

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

A certain application-launch script 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 Linux places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library 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://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050077.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050154.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100114250
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:211
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-71.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0780.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0781.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html

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