Vulnerability in Dracut Project

CVE-2010-4176

plymouth-pretrigger.sh in dracut and udev, when running on Fedora 13 and 14, sets weak permissions for the /dev/systty device file, which allows remote authenticated users to read terminal data from tty0 for local users.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.023 (82.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.8% 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-2010-4176: held from 0.023 to 0.023.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2010-4176?
CVE-2010-4176 is a vulnerability in Dracut Project, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. Published 2010-12-07.
Is CVE-2010-4176 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.