CVE-2010-3074

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2010-09-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

SSL_Cipher.cpp in EncFS before 1.7.0 uses an improper combination of an AES cipher and a CBC cipher mode for encrypted filesystems, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a watermark attack.

Affected products

Arg0 Encfs: through 1.6.0; 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-08/0316.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335938
http://code.google.com/p/encfs/source/detail?r=59
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047794.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047798.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047825.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41158
http://secunia.com/advisories/41478
http://www.arg0.net/encfs
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/05/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/06/1

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