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CVE-2010-4001

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

GMXRC.bash in Gromacs 4.5.1 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. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because the GMXLDLIB value is always added to the beginning of LD_LIBRARY_PATH at a later point in the script

Affected products

• Gromacs: through 4.5.1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050763.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050783.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2971
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644596
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050763.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050783.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2971
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644596

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