VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3133

critical
Published 2010-08-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Wireshark 0.8.4 through 1.0.15 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.10 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse airpcap.dll, and possibly other DLLs, that is located in the same folder as a file that automatically launches Wireshark.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-14721 local windows verified
TheLeader · 2010-08-24

Wireshark 1.2.10 - 'airpcap.dll' DLL Hijacking

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wiresharkwireshark{"endIncluding":"1.2.10"}
wiresharkwireshark0.99.2
wiresharkwireshark0.99.3
wiresharkwireshark0.99.4
wiresharkwireshark0.99.5
wiresharkwireshark0.99.6
wiresharkwireshark0.99.7
wiresharkwireshark0.99.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.0
wiresharkwireshark1.0.1
wiresharkwireshark1.0.2
wiresharkwireshark1.0.3
wiresharkwireshark1.0.4
wiresharkwireshark1.0.5
wiresharkwireshark1.0.6
wiresharkwireshark1.0.7
wiresharkwireshark1.0.8
wiresharkwireshark1.0.9
wiresharkwireshark1.0.10
wiresharkwireshark1.0.11
wiresharkwireshark1.0.12
wiresharkwireshark1.2.0
wiresharkwireshark1.2.1
wiresharkwireshark1.2.2
wiresharkwireshark1.2.3
wiresharkwireshark1.2.4
wiresharkwireshark1.2.5
wiresharkwireshark1.2.6
wiresharkwireshark1.2.7
wiresharkwireshark1.2.8
wiresharkwireshark1.2.9

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.