CVE-2009-4235: Tim Hockin Acpid

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2009-12-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.