Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in multipath-tools - CVE-2009-0115

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in multipath-tools - CVE-2009-0115

Published: March 30, 2009 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33702
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-0115
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.


Affected software

multipath-tools
Gentoo Linux
multipath-tools (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2009-0115

Install update from vendor's website.

multipath-tools (Alpine package) - update to 0.4.8-r4

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