Is CVE-2009-0115 being actively exploited?

CVE-2009-0115 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2009-0115?

CVE-2009-0115 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

CVE-2009-0115

HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score: 7.8 (v3.1)
Severity: HIGH
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-732
EPSS score: 0.5% (41th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2009-0124)
Published: March 30, 2009
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0124 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

avaya / intuity audix lx
avaya / intuity audix lx
avaya / intuity audix lx
avaya / message networking
avaya / messaging storage server
avaya / messaging storage server
avaya / messaging storage server
christophe.varoqui / multipath-tools
debian / debian linux
debian / debian linux
fedoraproject / fedora
fedoraproject / fedora
juniper / ctpview
juniper / ctpview
novell / open enterprise server
opensuse / opensuse
suse / linux enterprise desktop
suse / linux enterprise server
suse / linux enterprise server

Certified products that may be affected

2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with Service Pack 2, ProPack 4 for Service Pack 2 and certification-sles-sgi-eal3 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0292-2005 - archived
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with certification-sles-ibm-eal4 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0256-2005 - archived

References

http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3-test/repodata/patch-kpartx-6082.xml(Broken Link, Exploit)
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691(Third Party Advisory)
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(Third Party Advisory)
http://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-0115(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html(Mailing List)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html(Mailing List)
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34642(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34694(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34710(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/34759(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-128.htm(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1767(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528(Permissions Required)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9214(Broken Link)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00231.html(Mailing List)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00236.html(Mailing List)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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