CVE-2010-3879

Published Jan 22, 2011

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.8
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-59

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:libfuse_project:libfuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "B92AD047-28DC-4424-838E-BF99ACB99410",
            "versionEndIncluding": "2.8.5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References