CVE-2010-0015
gnu glibc: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.
- EPSS
- 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-255
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:glibc
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560333
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320356003425&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320570505651&w=2
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134
- http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/any/submitted-nis-shadow.diff?revision=4062&view=markup