CVE-2010-1439: Red Hat Yum-Rhn-Plugin

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Yum-Rhn-Plugin: any version

Published 2010-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.