CVE-2010-5274

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: 2012-09-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in PKZIP before 12.50.0014 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .zip file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Pkware Pkzip: 12.50.0014

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/41103
http://web.archive.org/web/20101229090807/http://www.pkware.com/support/desktop/updates/
http://secunia.com/advisories/41103
http://web.archive.org/web/20101229090807/http://www.pkware.com/support/desktop/updates/

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