CVE-2010-0826

critical

Description

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Berkeley DB NSS module (aka libnss-db) 2.2.3pre1 reads the DB_CONFIG file in the current working directory, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application that uses this module.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6681

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10727

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnss-db/+bug/531976

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0903

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0841

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0776

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-922-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39132

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:077

http://secunia.com/advisories/39165

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760.html

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-04-05

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical