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CVE-2010-2496

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2496 describes a vulnerability in stonith-ng within Pacemaker and cluster-glue where passwords were exposed as command-line parameters, allowing local attackers to access sensitive HA stack credentials. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) has a low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, patches are available in cluster-glue 1.0.6+ and Pacemaker 1.1.3+.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clusterlabs:cluster_glue:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clusterlabs:pacemaker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2496Moderate

cluster-glue: passes the stonith parameters via the commandline which could result in password leaks

Jul 8, 2010

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory