CVE-2010-2793 Race condition in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published 8 Dec 2010 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can exploit a race condition in the SPICE ActiveX plugin to gain elevated privileges via named pipe impersonation.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2010-2793?

CVE-2010-2793 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Dec 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the SPICE (aka spice-activex) plug-in for Internet Explorer in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Manager before 2.2.4 allows local users to create a certain named pipe, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors involving knowledge of the name of this named pipe, in conjunction with use of the ImpersonateNamedPipeClient function.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2793?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, Redhat Spice-Activex.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2793?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2793 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2010-2793 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2793 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-75v4-749r-wgh6.