CVE-2009-4033

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 8, 2009
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2009-4033: Medium severity, CVSS 6.9 | Vulnix