CVE-2010-4236

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895.

Affected products

IBM Omnifind: through 9.0; 6.1, 8.0, 8.4, 8.5

References

http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15475
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933
http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15475
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933

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