VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0826

low
Published 2010-04-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.9

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.2.3pre1-3.2
sid Fixed 2.2.3pre1-3.2
bullseye Fixed 2.2.3pre1-3.2
bookworm Fixed 2.2.3pre1-3.2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
piotr_roszatyckilibnss-db2.2.3

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.