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CVE-2010-3999

• 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: 2010-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

gnc-test-env in GnuCash 2.3.15 and earlier places 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

• Gnucash: through 2.3.15; 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.2.0 (+24)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050269.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050164.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050177.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42048
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42054
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:241
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44563
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2848
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2898
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3060
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644933
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050269.html

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