CVE-2010-1439
yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable…
- 3.6LowCVSS base score
- 0.40%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 65% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9232 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1024049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 39996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585386 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- redhat-clienttools-loginauth-security-bypass(59114) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 40492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1311 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0449 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 65063 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-1467 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-1439)Record last updated .