# CVE-2009-4235: Information disclosure in n/a

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

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 Dec 2009
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4235, DSA-1960-1, GHSA-p5hp-4jh5-q286

## 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: 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.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2009-4033](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4033/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2009-0798](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-0798/): Denial of service in n/a (medium 5.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2009-4235 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4235/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4235/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4235
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4235
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-4235

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