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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-3147 in the critical feed json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in wab.exe 6.00.2900.5512 in Windows Address Book in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2…

published 2010-08-27 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-3147

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.7%
EPSS 18.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in wab.exe 6.00.2900.5512 in Windows Address Book in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wab32res.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a Windows Address Book (WAB), VCF (aka vCard), or P7C file, aka "Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability." NOTE: the codebase for this product may overlap the codebase for the product referenced in CVE-2010-3143.

Timeline

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

Exploit prediction

18.68% 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
  • attackvector.org http://www.attackvector.org/new-dll-hijacking-exploits-many/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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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