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CVE-2009-0115

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-732

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 products

• Avaya Intuity Audix Lx: 2.0, 2.0-sp1, 2.0-sp2
• Avaya Message Networking: 3.1
• Avaya Messaging Storage Server: 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
• Christophe.Varoqui Multipath-Tools: 0.4.8
• Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 9, 10
• Juniper Networks CTPView: before 7.1; 7.1 — fixed in 7.1
• Micro Focus International Open Enterprise Server: all versions
• Opensuse: from 10.3 through 11.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 9, 10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Juniper Networks CTPView 7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
• http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34694
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34710
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34759

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