CVE-2010-2961
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.9
Description
mountall.c in mountall before 2.15.2 uses 0666 permissions for the root.rules file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying 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.
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.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
mountall 2.15.2 (Ubuntu 10.04/10.10) - Local Privilege Escalation
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41351
- http://www.osvdb.org/67914
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-985-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2342
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/591807
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41351
- http://www.osvdb.org/67914
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-985-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2342
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/591807
CWEs
CWE-362
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.