CVE-2010-3156 — Untrusted search path vulnerability in K2 K2Editor before 1.5.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the current working directory

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Untrusted search path vulnerability in K2 K2Editor before 1.5.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the current working directory

Published Oct 25, 2010

6.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.28%

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in K2 K2Editor before 1.5.9 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the current working directory.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.28% 0.00279

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00279

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.28% (0.00279)	18.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.28% (0.00279)	19.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00060)	15.86th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN36921800/index.html
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2010/JVNDB-2010-000041.html
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN36921800/index.html		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2010/JVNDB-2010-000041.html		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner jpcert

Published Oct 25, 2010

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Aug 27, 2010

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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