CVE-2010-3376

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: yes
Published: 2010-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) proofserv, (2) xrdcp, (3) xrdpwdadmin, and (4) xrd scripts in ROOT 5.18/00 place a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected products

root-project root: 5.18/00

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598419
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598420
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598419
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598420

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