{"cve":"CVE-2009-4033","nvd":{"published":"2009-12-08T19:30:00.217","modified":"2026-06-16T23:12:52.660","status":"Modified","description":"A certain Red Hat patch for acpid 1.0.4 effectively triggers a call to the open function with insufficient arguments, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file, cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, or gain privileges by executing this file.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-264"],"references":["http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284","http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342","http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062"],"products":["tim_hockin:acpid"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:26.868835795+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-4033","score":0.00309,"percentile":0.23721,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}