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CVE-2010-0826

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0826 describes a vulnerability in the Free Software Foundation's Berkeley DB NSS module (libnss-db) version 2.2.3pre1, where it insecurely reads the DB_CONFIG file from the current working directory. This flaw allows local attackers to gain sensitive information through a symlink attack when a setgid or setuid application utilizes the module. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:piotr_roszatycki:libnss-db:2.2.3:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 68th 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: nss_db-0:2.2-35.4.el5_5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0826Moderate

nss_db: Information leak due the DB_CONFIG file read from current working directory

Apr 1, 2010

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038760.html
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/libnss-db/+bug/531976
secunia.com / advisories/39165
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10727
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6681
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/39132
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-922-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0776
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0841
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0903