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CVE-2010-3181

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3181 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey on Windows. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by tricking the application into loading a malicious DLL from the current working directory. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there are no known public exploits like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions, indicating awareness and potential interest in its exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12116
mozilla.org / security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-71.html
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