CVE-2012-4442

medium

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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-05

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00062