CVE-2009-0115 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2009-0115

The Device Mapper multipathing driver (aka multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath) 0.4.8,...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

christophe.varoqui

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Affected Software

multipath-tools, fedora, debian linux, intuity audix lx, message networking, messaging storage server, open enterprise server, opensuse, linux enterprise desktop, linux enterprise server, ctpview
Vulnerable Versions:
0.4.8, 9, 10, 4.0, 5.0, 2.0, 3.1, 3.0, 10.3, 0, 7.1

Timeline

Official Publish: March 30th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.