CVE-2010-3182: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain application-launch script in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 on Linux places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.6 only; version 3.6.2 only; version 3.6.3 only; version 3.6.4 only; version 3.6.6 only; version 3.6.7 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.0.8; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 3.0.8; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2010-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.