CVE-2010-5239 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting DAEMON Tools Lite and Pro Standard, allowing local privilege escalation. An attacker can exploit this by placing a malicious mfc80loc.dll file in a directory containing a .mds file, which the vulnerable software then loads. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.35.6.0091CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:daemon-tools:daemon_tools:4.35.6.0091:*:lite:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.36.0309.0160CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:daemon-tools:daemon_tools:4.36.0309.0160:*:pro_standard:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.