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CVE-2010-3142 in the critical feed json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbit…

published 2010-08-27 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-3142

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.3%
EPSS 16.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse rpawinet.dll that is located in the same folder as a .odp, .pothtml, .potm, .potx, .ppa, .ppam, .pps, .ppt, .ppthtml, .pptm, .pptxml, .pwz, .sldm, .sldx, and .thmx file.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-14723)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-14782 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 - 'rpawinet.dll' DLL Hijacking local, 2010-08-25
  • EDB-14723 Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - 'pptimpconv.dll' DLL Hijacking local, 2010-08-24

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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