Path Traversal in Fedoraproject Fedora

CVE-2010-0746

Directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via .. (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (45.0th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 45.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2010-0746: held from 0.006 to 0.006.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2010-0746?
CVE-2010-0746 is a vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, classified under Path Traversal. Published 2014-01-13.
Is CVE-2010-0746 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.