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.
Published: 2009-03-30
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1767-1 New multipath-tools packages fix denial of service
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Subscriptions

Avaya Intuity Audix Lx Message Networking Messaging Storage Server
Christophe.varoqui Multipath-tools
Debian Debian Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Juniper Ctpview
Novell Open Enterprise Server
Opensuse Opensuse
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop Linux Enterprise Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:24:17.823Z

Reserved: 2009-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0115

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-03-30T16:30:00.343

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0115

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0115 - Bugzilla

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