CVE-2010-0789

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0789
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-03-02 18:30:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionfusermount in FUSE before 2.7.5, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2, allows local users to unmount an arbitrary FUSE filesystem share via a symlink attack on a mountpoint.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.3 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-59 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fuse Fuse 1.9 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.0 pre0 All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.0 pre1 All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.2 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.2.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.3 pre All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.3 rc1 All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.3.0 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.4.0 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.4.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.4.2 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.5.0 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.5.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.5.2 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.5.3 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.6.0 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.6.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.6.3 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.6.5 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.7.0 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.7.1 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.7.2 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.7.3 All All All
Application Fuse Fuse 2.7.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:013 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Bug 558833 – CVE-2009-3297 samba, fuse, ncpfs: Race condition by mount (mount.cifs, ncpmount) / umount (fusermount, ncpumount) operations [Fedora all] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Bug 532940 – CVE-2010-0788 ncpfs: Race condition by mount (ncpmount) / umount (ncpumount) operations af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Patch
#567633 - race condition in fusermount - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
FUSE 'fusermount' Race Condition Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
USN-892-1: FUSE vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Debian update for fuse - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: fuse-2.8.1-4.fc12 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1989-1 fuse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Patch
Fedora update for fuse - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Filesystem in Userspace - Browse Files at SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Patch
Browse Filesystem in Userspace Files on SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:011 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
FUSE "fusermount" Race Condition Denial of Service - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:003 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: fuse-2.8.1-2.fc11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Ubuntu update for fuse - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-04-07Vincent DanenRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-0789 This issue affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 because it ships fusermount suid root, however the impact of this flaw is minimized due to the fact that only members in group fuse may use it the executable is owned root:fuse and mode 4750. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 do not provide the fuse package. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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