CVE-2010-4159

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: none known
Published: 2010-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in metadata/loader.c in Mono 2.8 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

mono: through 2.6.7; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+59)

References

http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2010-October/177900.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939873515821&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128939912716499&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128941802415318&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/42174
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:240
http://www.mono-project.com/Vulnerabilities#Mono_Runtime_Insecure_Native_Library_Loading
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44810
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3059
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641915
https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/8e890a3bf80a4620e417814dc14886b1bbd17625
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2010-October/177900.html

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