CVE-2010-3879
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8EPSS 9.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 9.8% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-3857)
- Published
- January 22, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3857 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libfuse project / libfuse
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053792.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077247.html(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/8(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/05/2(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/70520(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42961(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42965(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:155(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44623(Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0181(Permissions Required)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0302(Permissions Required)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598(Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62986(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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