CVE-2010-2945

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of SLiM before 1.3.2 places ./ (dot slash) at the beginning of the default_path option, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in the current working directory, related to slim.conf and cfg.cpp.

Affected products

Simone Rota Slim Simple Login Manager: through 1.3.1; 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3 (+4)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/41005
http://svn.berlios.de/viewvc/slim?view=revision&revision=171
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/20/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/41005
http://svn.berlios.de/viewvc/slim?view=revision&revision=171
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/20/10

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