CVE-2010-3138

critical
Published 2010-08-27 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 the Indeo Codec in iac25_32.ax in Microsoft Windows XP SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse iacenc.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by access through BS.Player or Media Player Classic to a directory that contains a .avi, .mka, .ra, or .ram file, aka "Indeo Codec Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability." NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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-14765 local windows
Encrypt3d.M!nd ยท 2010-08-25

Media Player Classic 1.3.2189.0 - 'iacenc.dll' DLL Hijacking

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EDB-14788 local windows verified
LiquidWorm ยท 2010-08-25

Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 - 'iacenc.dll' DLL Hijacking

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OS impact

windows Windows Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftwindows_media_player
bsplayerbs.player

References

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

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