CVE-2010-0832 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the pam_motd module of PAM on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. Attackers can exploit a symlink vulnerability in a user's home directory to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access, medium attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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