CVE-2009-0115

Publication date 30 March 2009

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
multipath-tools	9.04 jaunty	Not affected
	8.10 intrepid	Not affected
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not affected
	7.10 gutsy	Not affected
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

all versions of multipath-tools adjust the umask of the multipath socket. In 9.04 and later this is 1000--set-umask-in-multipathd.patch. In other releases the patch is applied inline. the upstream patches are different, and can be found here: 7395bcda3a218df2eab1617df54628af0dc3456e 0a0319d381249760c71023edbe0ac9c093bb4a74

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0115