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CVE-2010-4176

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4176 describes a vulnerability in plymouth-pretrigger.sh within dracut and udev on Fedora 13 and 14, where weak permissions on /dev/systty allow remote authenticated users to read terminal data from tty0. The CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) indicates a low severity, as it requires remote authentication and only impacts confidentiality by allowing data reading. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dracut_project:dracut:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:udev_project:udev:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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-2010-4176Moderate

dracut: /dev/systty permissions could allow remote users to snoop on local users

Nov 19, 2010

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/051755.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051418.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42342
Not Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/42451
Not Applicable
securityfocus.com / bid/45046
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3062
Permissions Required
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3110
Permissions Required