SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2010-3879

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…

MEDIUM 5.8EPSS 9.85%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (9.85%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
EPSS
9.85% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-59
Affected
libfuse project/libfuse
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.