CVE-2010-1439
LOW · CVSS 3.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-1467)
- Published
- June 7, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-1467 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / rhn-client-tools
- redhat / yum-rhn-plugin
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39996(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024049
- http://www.osvdb.org/65063
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0449.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40492
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1311(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585386
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59114
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9232
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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