CVE-2010-2056
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
GNU gv before 3.7.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (27th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2076)
- Published
- July 22, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2076 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
- gnu / gv
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html
- http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40475(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40532(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/66249
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599621
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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