CVE-2010-5209: Nuance PDF Reader

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

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Nuance PDF Reader 6.0 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse (1) dwmapi.dll or (2) exceptiondumpdll.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .pdf file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Nuance PDF Reader: version 6.0 only

Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.