CVE-2010-0746

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-0746
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-01-13 21:55:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via .. (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS: 0.000210000 probability, percentile 0.059520000 (date 2026-05-01)

Problem Types: CWE-22 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 11 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 12 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2010-0746: DeviceKit Local Privilege Escalation « xorl %eax, %eax af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xorl.wordpress.com Exploit, Patch
523178 – (CVE-2010-0746) CVE-2010-0746 DeviceKit: Privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
23235 – cannot mount disc with / (slash) in label af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.freedesktop.org
oss-sec: Re: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 stealth.openwall.net Exploit
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