CVE-2010-3402: Ultraedit

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in IDM Computer Solutions UltraEdit 16.20.0.1009, 16.10.0.1036, and probably other versions allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a bin, cpp, css, c, dat, hpp, html, h, ini, java, log, mak, php, prj, txt, or xml file.

Affected products

• Ultraedit Ultraedit: version 16.10.0.1036 only; version 16.20.0.1009 only

Published 2010-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.