CVE-2009-4033
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
A certain Red Hat patch for acpid 1.0.4 effectively triggers a call to the open function with insufficient arguments, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file, cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, or gain privileges by executing this file.
Affected configurations
References
securitytracker.com/id?1023284
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/37249
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54677
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10555
Related
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%