CVE-2010-0015: GNU Glibc

High severity, CVSS 7.5. 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.

Affected products

• GNU Glibc: version 2.7 only; version 2.10.2 only

Published 2010-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.