CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-3879

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2011-01-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• libfuse project libfuse (<= 2.8.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References