acpid 1.0.4 sets an unrestrictive umask, which might allow local users to leverage weak permissions on /var/log/acpid, and obtain…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542926 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1023284 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515062 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-1960 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• acpid-umask-weak-security(54676) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1642 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDVSA-2009:343 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• MDVSA-2009:342 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:54 UTC.