CVE-2010-0826: Piotr Roszatycki Libnss-DB

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Berkeley DB NSS module (aka libnss-db) 2.2.3pre1 reads the DB_CONFIG file in the current working directory, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack involving a setgid or setuid application that uses this module.

Affected products

• Piotr Roszatycki Libnss-DB: version 2.2.3 only

Published 2010-04-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.