CVE-2010-0826

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

Piotr Roszatycki Libnss-Db: 2.2.3-pre1

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39165
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:077
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39132
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-922-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0776
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0841
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0903
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnss-db/+bug/531976
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10727
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6681

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