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CVE-2010-0789

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0789 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in FUSE versions prior to 2.7.5 and 2.8.2. An attacker could exploit a symlink attack on a mountpoint to unmount an arbitrary FUSE filesystem share. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3, indicating low severity with local access and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fuse:fuse:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fuse:fuse:2.0:pre0:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fuse:fuse:2.0:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fuse:fuse:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fuse:fuse:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: fuse

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0789Low

fuse: Race condition by umount (fusermount) operations

Jan 26, 2010

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034518.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034580.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/38261
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38287
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38359
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38437
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/55945
sourceforge.net / projects/fuse/files/fuse-2.X/2.7.5/fuse-2.7.5.tar.gz/download
Patch
sourceforge.net / projects/fuse/files/ReleaseNotes/fuse-2.8.3.html/view
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-1989
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/37983
Patch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-892-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1107