CVE-2009-0115
multipath-tools - denial of service
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.49%
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.
How to fix CVE-2009-0115
To remediate CVE-2009-0115, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.4.8-15 or later
- —upgrade to 0.4.7-1.1etch2 or later
Is CVE-2009-0115 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.4.8-15
- from 0, < 0.4.7-1.1etch2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |