CVE-2010-1439

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2010-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.

Affected products

RedHat Yum-Rhn-Plugin: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/39996
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024049
http://www.osvdb.org/65063
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0449.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40492
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1311
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585386
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59114
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9232
http://secunia.com/advisories/39996
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024049
http://www.osvdb.org/65063

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