Vulnerability in Libfuse Project

CVE-2010-3879

FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.098 (95.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.4% 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-2010-3879: held from 0.098 to 0.098.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.098 · newest: 0.098 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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