CVE-2009-4235

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-12-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain sensitive information by reading this file or cause a denial of service by overwriting this file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4033.

Affected products

Tim Hockin Acpid: 1.0.4

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:343
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1642.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54676
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023284
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1960
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:342
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:343

Get alerted when CVE-2009-4235 or the next vulnerability affects your stack