CVE-2010-2198 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting RPM 4.8.0 and earlier. It stems from improper metadata handling during package upgrades or removals, allowing local users to create hard links to files with POSIX capabilities or SELinux context, thereby bypassing access restrictions. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability has high impact potential, but requires local access and low attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rpm:rpm:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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