CVE-2009-0115

Published: Mar 30, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-732

7.8HIGH

NVD MITRE

Description

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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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected Products

avaya

commercial·USaka s8300, avaya communication manager

messaging storage server

Communications

suse

commercial·DE

linux enterprise desktopOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

linux enterprise serverOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

The CentOS Project

oss-project·USaka centos

CentOSOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

christophe.varoqui

individual-dev

multipath-toolsLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

fedoraproject

oss-project·USaka fedora project

fedoraOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

debian

oss-project·GBaka debian gnu/linux

debian linuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Privilege Escalation

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References

http://lwn.net/Alerts/327754

lwn.net

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html

lists.opensuse.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/34759

secunia.com

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