CVE-2010-4236: IBM Omnifind

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895.

Affected products

• IBM Omnifind: up to and including 9.0; version 6.1 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.5 only

Published 2010-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.