CVE-2010-0015

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.

Affected products

GNU C Library (glibc): 2.7, 2.10.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560333
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320356003425&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320570505651&w=2
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/any/submitted-nis-shadow.diff?revision=4062&view=markup
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/11/6
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html

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