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Vulnerability record · CVE-2010-2793 · published 8 December 2010

CVE-2010-2793: Redhat spice-activex race condition vulnerability

Redhat · Spice Activex

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.

6.8 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 1.0% · top 37.5% CWE-362 · Race condition
6.8CVSS 2.0 base score
1.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45213
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620355
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0818.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024825
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45213
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620355
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0818.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2010-2793), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.