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CVE-2010-5273 (GCVE-0-2010-5273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-07 10:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:08
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Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Altova DiffDog 2011 Enterprise Edition SP1 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 .dbdif file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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CWE
  • n/a
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References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/42548 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/altova-diffdo… x_refsource_MISC
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