CVE-2010-5250: Pthread-WIN32 Project Pthreads-WIN32

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the pthread_win32_process_attach_np function in pthreadGC2.dll in Pthreads-win32 2.8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse quserex.dll file in the current working directory. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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