Untrusted search path vulnerability in Corel PDF Fusion 1.11 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll file in…

published 2013-10-03 13y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-3185

cvss: 9.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 18.5%; EPSS 18.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 2; Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Corel PDF Fusion 1.11 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .pdf or .xps file.

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Timeline

2013-07-08 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/fileformat/corelpdf_fusion_bof)
2013-10-03 Published

Exploit prediction

18.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit exploit/windows/fileformat/corelpdf_fusion_bof Corel PDF Fusion Stack Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2013-07-08
EDB-26805 Corel PDF Fusion - Local Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) local, 2013-07-13

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

secunia.com /advisories/52707
third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
osvdb.org /show/osvdb/94934
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2013-3248
NVD CVE-2013-3248

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