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CVE-2010-4173

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4173 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting libsdp 1.1.104 and earlier, specifically within its default configuration. The flaw allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by exploiting a symlink or hard link attack against temporary log files created in /tmp. With a CVSS score of 3.3, this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and moderate attack complexity to achieve partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.104CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:libsdp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:libsdp:1.1.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.100CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:libsdp:1.1.100:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.101CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:libsdp:1.1.101:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.102CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:libsdp:1.1.102:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 19th 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)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libsdp
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libsdp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4173Low

libsdp: insecure log file handling

Nov 16, 2010

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
openfabrics.org / downloads/libsdp/libsdp-1.1.105-0.4.g1b9b996.tar.gz
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/11/16/2
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/11/16/7
Patch