CVE-2010-4236

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2010-4236 · Published 12/11/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-4236 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting omnifind (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.87%, higher than 59.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
omnifind ibm	`= 6.1= 8.0= 8.4= 8.5≤ 9.0`	No fix yet

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in estaskwrapper in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition before 9.1 allows local users to gain privileges via an ES_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and a modified PATH environment variable, which is used during execution of the estasklight program, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3895.

References

security.fatihkilic.de/advisory/fkilic-sa-2010-ibm-omnifind.txt · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/15475 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/archive/1/514688/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/44740 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2933 · Vendor Advisory

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Affected versions

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omnifind

ibm

= 6.1= 8.0= 8.4= 8.5≤ 9.0

No fix yet

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