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CVE-2010-0301

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0301 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in maildrop version 2.3.0 and earlier. When maildrop is executed by the root user with the -d option, it incorrectly uses root's group ID for processing a user's .mailfilter file, allowing local users to gain root privileges through a specially crafted file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maildrop:maildrop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maildrop:maildrop:0.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maildrop:maildrop:0.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.51bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maildrop:maildrop:0.51b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.51cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:maildrop:maildrop:0.51c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0301Moderate

maildrop: does not drop supplimentary groups when dropping privileges

Jan 10, 2010

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/38367
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38374
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/55980
courier-mta.org / maildrop/changelog.html
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-1981