CVE-2009-0115
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · Incorrect permission assignment
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34418Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691Advisory
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705Advisory
- http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
- http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xmlExploit