CVE-2010-0015

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.5/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-255

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 14, 2010
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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