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CVE-2010-0788

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0788 describes a symlink vulnerability in ncpfs versions prior to 2.2.6, specifically affecting the ncpmount and ncpumount programs. This local vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating a medium attack complexity where an attacker could achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit for local privilege escalation on Gentoo/Linux systems is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ncpfs:ncpfs:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-779 · Jan 30, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0067 is in the 84th 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-2010-0788Low

ncpfs: Race condition by mount (ncpmount) / umount (ncpumount) operations

Jan 26, 2010

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034403.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034422.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2010/Mar/122
secunia.com / advisories/38327
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38371
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/509893/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/509894/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/38563