CVE-2012-5303

medium

Description

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a PID file, as demonstrated by a pathname different from the default /var/run/monkey.pid pathname.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-5226

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55905

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

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672425

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-05

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N