CVE-2009-0115
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.08%multipath-tools - denial of service
Published: 3/30/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/multipath-toolsfrom 0, < 0.4.8-15
- Debian/multipath-toolsfrom 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 |