CVE-2009-0115 Misconfiguration in n/a
Local attackers can exploit world-writable socket permissions to send arbitrary commands to the multipath daemon, potentially escalating privileges or executing code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2009-0115?
CVE-2009-0115 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Mar 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0115?
It affects 11 products.
Linux distribution packages (14)
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:0.4.5-31.el4_7.1 |
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
kpartx Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
device-mapper-multipath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
device-mapper-multipath-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
kpartx Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:0.4.7-23.el5_3.2 |
Products include Avaya Intuity Audix Lx, Avaya Message Networking, Avaya Messaging Storage Server, Christophe.varoqui Multipath-Tools, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora and 5 more.
How do I fix CVE-2009-0115?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2009-0115 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0115 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0115, DSA-1767-1, GHSA-m58q-qh36-cwx8, RHSA-2009:0411.