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CVE-2010-0832

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-14339 · Jul 12, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0094 is in the 90th 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 Patches (1)

ubuntuvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/40512
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/60194
twitter.com / jonoberheide/statuses/18009527979
exploit-db.com / exploits/14273
Exploit
h-online.com / security/news/item/Ubuntu-closes-root-hole-1034618.html
osvdb.org / 66116
securityfocus.com / bid/41465
ExploitPatch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-959-1
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1747
Vendor Advisory