CVE-2010-2241
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
The (1) setup-ds.pl and (2) setup-ds-admin.pl setup scripts for Red Hat Directory Server 8 before 8.2 use world-readable permissions when creating cache files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information including passwords for Directory and Administration Server administrative accounts.
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | directory_server | 8.0 | |
| redhat | directory_server | 8.1 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0590.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40811
- http://www.osvdb.org/66962
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024281
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608032
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0590.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40811
- http://www.osvdb.org/66962
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024281
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608032
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.