CVE-2010-2793

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the SPICE (aka spice-activex) plug-in for Internet Explorer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 2.2.4 allows local users to create a certain named pipe, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors involving knowledge of the name of this named pipe, in conjunction with use of the ImpersonateNamedPipeClient function.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Manager: through 2.2.3; 2.1, 2.2
RedHat Spice-Activex: all versions

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45213
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620355
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0818.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45213
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620355
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0818.html

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