Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-0746

Title: Fedoraproject Fedora Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-0746.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Jan 13, 2014

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.57%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-0746: Directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via .. (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.

Impacted Vendors

fedoraproject 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/5 http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q2/5 http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-0746 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 13, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.