CVE-2010-5274: Pkware Pkzip

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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in PKZIP before 12.50.0014 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .zip file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Pkware Pkzip: version 12.50.0014 only

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