CVE-2009-4235 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 6.9 Published 8 Dec 2009 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Local attackers can read sensitive logs or cause denial of service due to insecure file permissions in the acpid daemon.

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-2009-4235?

CVE-2009-4235 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Dec 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file or cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4033.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4235?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tim Hockin Acpid.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4235?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2009-4235 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4235 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4235, DSA-1960-1, GHSA-p5hp-4jh5-q286.