CVE-2010-0826
LOW · CVSS 1.9EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Berkeley DB NSS module (aka libnss-db) 2.2.3pre1 reads the DB_CONFIG file in the current working directory, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application that uses this module.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (31th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0852)
- Published
- April 5, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0852 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- piotr roszatycki / libnss-db
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39165(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:077
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39132
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-922-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0776(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0841
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0903
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnss-db/+bug/531976
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10727
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6681
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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