CVE-2012-4442

NONE EPSS 23.1%
Published Oct 5, 201213y ago · Modified Jun 16, 20262w ago
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Published Oct 5, 2012 13y ago
Last Modified Jun 16, 2026 2w ago

Description

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
23.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-264

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
monkey-projectmonkey0.9.3any

References 3

  • bugs.debian.org http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
  • bugs.debian.org http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.