CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2009-0115
The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8, as used in SUSE openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Fedora, and possibly other operating systems, uses world-writable permissions for the socket file (aka /var/run/multipathd.sock), which allows local users to send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-732
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- avaya:intuity_audix_lx
- avaya:message_networking
- avaya:messaging_storage_server
- christophe.varoqui:multipath-tools
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- juniper:ctpview
- novell:open_enterprise_server
- opensuse:opensuse
- suse:linux_enterprise_desktop
- suse:linux_enterprise_server
References
- http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html