CVE-2010-0746

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via .. (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 11, 12

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/5
http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/5
http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178

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