CVE-2009-4235 (GCVE-0-2009-4235)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-08 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2009-12-07 00:00
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