Skip to content
Fencer Intel
critical 9.3

CVE-2010-3143 in the critical feed json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Contacts allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary c…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-3143

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.8%
EPSS 20.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Contacts allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wab32res.dll that is located in the same folder as a .contact, .group, .p7c, .vcf, or .wab file. NOTE: the codebase for this product may overlap the codebase for the product referenced in CVE-2010-3147.

Is CVE-2010-3143 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-14733)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

20.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-14778 Microsoft Windows - Contacts 'wab32res.dll' DLL Hijacking local, 2010-08-25
  • EDB-14745 Microsoft Address Book 6.00.2900.5512 - 'wab32res.dll' DLL Hijacking local, 2010-08-25
  • EDB-14733 Microsoft Windows 7 - 'wab32res.dll wab.exe' 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

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.