CVE-2010-3142: Microsoft PowerPoint

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 16.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse rpawinet.dll that is located in the same folder as a .odp, .pothtml, .potm, .potx, .ppa, .ppam, .pps, .ppt, .ppthtml, .pptm, .pptxml, .pwz, .sldm, .sldx, and .thmx file.

Affected products

• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 2007 only

Published 2010-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.