CVE-2010-3879: Libfuse Project Libfuse

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Libfuse Project Libfuse: up to and including 2.8.5

Published 2011-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.