CVE-2010-5231: Divx Player

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in DivX Player 7.2.019 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse VersionCheckDLL.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .avi file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• Divx Divx Player: version 7.2.0.19 only

Published 2012-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.