CVE-2011-4578: Tedfelix ACPID2

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Tedfelix ACPID2: up to and including 2.0.10; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2012-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.