Description
FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.
Published: 2011-01-22
Score: 5.8 Medium
EPSS: 2.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3857 FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1045-1 FUSE vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1045-2 util-linux update
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01796}

epss

{'score': 0.02202}


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Libfuse Project Libfuse
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:26:11.877Z

Reserved: 2010-10-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3879

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-01-22T22:00:02.927

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3879

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-11-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-3879 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses