CVE-2010-1439

low

Published 2010-06-07 · 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

3.6

Description

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.

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.

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OS impact

Fedora Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Not affected	—

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Not affected	—
5	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	rhn-client-tools
redhat	yum-rhn-plugin

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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