CVE-2010-3148

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 Visio 2003 SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse mfc71enu.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .vsd, .vdx, .vst, or .vtx file, aka "Microsoft Visio Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

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-14744 local windows
Beenu Arora ยท 2010-08-25

Microsoft Visio 2003 - 'mfc71enu.dll' DLL Hijacking

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftvisio2003

References

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

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