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CVE-2010-3378

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) scilab, (2) scilab-cli, and (3) scilab-adv-cli scripts in Scilab 5.2.2 place 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

• Scilab: 5.2.2

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598422
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598423
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598422
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598423

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