CVE-2010-0832

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

pam_motd (aka the MOTD module) in libpam-modules before 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 in PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and libpam-modules before 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 in PAM on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on .cache in a user's home directory, related to "user file stamps" and the motd.legal-notice file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 9.10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/40512
http://twitter.com/jonoberheide/statuses/18009527979
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14273
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Ubuntu-closes-root-hole-1034618.html
http://www.osvdb.org/66116
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41465
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-959-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1747
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/60194
http://secunia.com/advisories/40512
http://twitter.com/jonoberheide/statuses/18009527979
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14273

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