CVE-2010-3378: Scilab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) scilab, (2) scilab-cli, and (3) scilab-adv-cli scripts in Scilab 5.2.2 place 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

• Scilab Scilab: version 5.2.2 only

Published 2010-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.