7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-0115

Published: 30/03/2009 Updated: 16/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: device-mapper-multipath security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that fix a security issue are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Secu ...
Debian Bug report logs - #522813 multipath-tools: CVE-2009-0115 insecure permissions of control socket Package: multipath-tools; Maintainer for multipath-tools is Debian DM Multipath Team <team+linux-blocks@trackerdebianorg>; Source for multipath-tools is src:multipath-tools (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Nico Golde &l ...
It was discovered that multipathd of multipath-tools, a tool-chain to manage disk multipath device maps, uses insecure permissions on its unix domain control socket which enables local attackers to issue commands to multipathd prevent access to storage devices or corrupt file system data For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been ...