CVE-2010-3143: Microsoft Windows

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 20.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Contacts allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wab32res.dll that is located in the same folder as a .contact, .group, .p7c, .vcf, or .wab file. NOTE: the codebase for this product may overlap the codebase for the product referenced in CVE-2010-3147.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows: any version

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