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CVE-2010-0746
Directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems,…
Medium6.2EPSS 0.57%
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.57% · top 53% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100401 Re: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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