CVE-2010-3965: Microsoft Windows Media Encoder

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 11.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Windows Media Encoder 9 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, and Windows Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a Windows Media Profile (PRX) file, aka "Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder: version 9 only; version 9_series only

Published 2010-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.