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CVE-2010-0746

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0746 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks, affecting Fedora 11 and 12, where local users can gain privileges by using ".." sequences in the label of a pluggable storage device. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 80th 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-2010-0746Moderate

DeviceKit: Privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels

Sep 16, 2009

References

bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2010/q2/5
stealth.openwall.net / xSports/devshit.pl
Exploit
xorl.wordpress.com / 2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation
ExploitPatch