CVE-2010-5240

medium

Published 2012-09-07 · 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

7.9

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW X5 15.1.0.588 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse (1) dwmapi.dll or (2) CrlRib.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .cdr, .cpt, .cmx, or .csl file. 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-14787 local windows verified

LiquidWorm · 2010-08-25

Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 13.0.0.576 - 'crlrib.dll' DLL Hijacking

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-14786 local windows verified

LiquidWorm · 2010-08-25

CorelDRAW X3 13.0.0.576 - 'crlrib.dll' DLL Hijacking

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
corel	coreldraw_x5	`15.1.0.588`
corel	photo-paint_x3	`13.0.0.576`

References

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

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