CVE-2010-4170
38Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendepss 5.3%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDDec 7
1st PoCNov 26
metasploitNov 17
exploitation probability
5.3%top 8% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
5 public exploit(s)
The staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not properly clear the environment before executing modprobe, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable to specify a malicious configuration file.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 5
cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/152569/SystemTap-1.3-MODPROBE_OPTIONS-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/46730/unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/15620unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/15620unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/46730unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051115.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051122.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051127.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152569/SystemTap-1.3-MODPROBE_OPTIONS-Privilege-Escalation.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/42256http://secunia.com/advisories/42263http://secunia.com/advisories/42306http://secunia.com/advisories/42318http://secunia.com/advisories/46920https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/63344http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b7565b41228bea196cefa3a7d43ab67f8f9152e2http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2010-q4/msg00230.html