CVE-2010-4236 — Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895

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Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895

Published Nov 12, 2010

6.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.87%

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.87% 0.00874

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00874

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 (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.87% (0.00874)	57.46th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.89% (0.00891)	54.55th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.36% (0.00363)	56.24th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.81th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 4, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	73.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	52.35th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (5)

http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15475
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933
vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15475		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44740		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933		vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 12, 2010

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 12, 2010

Link CVE-2010-4236

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2010-4236

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2010-4236