CVE-2010-5251: IBM Lotus Notes

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

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse (1) nnoteswc.dll or (2) nlsxbe.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .vcf, .vcs, or .ics file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

• IBM Lotus Notes: version 8.5 only

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