CVE-2010-5265

2012-09-0710:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

smartsniff

vulnerability

local privilege escalation

wpcap.dll

AI Score

6.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Untrusted search path vulnerability in SmartSniff 1.71 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse wpcap.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .cfg or .ssp file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

packetstormsecurity.org/1009-exploits/smartsniff-dllhijack.txt

secunia.com/advisories/41580