CVE-2011-4578
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
event.c in acpid (aka acpid2) before 2.0.11 does not have an appropriate umask setting during execution of event-handler scripts, which might allow local users to (1) perform write operations within directories created by a script, or (2) read files created by a script, via standard filesystem system calls.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-4504)
- Published
- August 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-4504 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
- tedfelix / acpid2
References
- http://sourceforge.net/u/tedfelix/acpid2/ci/02d0bf29207f17996936ab652717855b15873901/tree/Changelog?force=True
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:138
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/06/3
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpid/+bug/893821
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760984
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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