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CVE-2010-5246

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.9)—

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Maxthon Browser 1.6.7.35 and 2.5.15 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse (1) RSRC32.dll or (2) dwmapi.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .html file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Maxthon — Maxthon Browser

CWEs

References

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