CVE-2010-4005: Gnome Tomboy

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) tomboy and (2) tomboy-panel scripts in GNOME Tomboy 1.5.2 and earlier place a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory. NOTE: vector 1 exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2005-4790.2.

Affected products

• Gnome Tomboy: up to and including 1.5.2; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.5.1 only

Published 2010-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.