CVE-2010-2793: redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager Race Condition

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2010-2793 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Race Condition vulnerability in redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager. EPSS estimates a 1.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 08-12-2010
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.