CVE-2010-2793

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.

Published: 2010-12-08 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-2793 is rated Moderate Risk (48.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.04%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-2793

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.23% 1.04% +0.81%
2 2025-03-30 0.27% 0.23% -0.04%
3 2025-03-29 0.27%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-2793

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-2793

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-2793

vendor priority summary link
redhat high https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2793

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-2793

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat spice-activex cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spice-activex:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager <= 2.2.3 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_virtualization_manager 2.2 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-2793

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