CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2653

10.0 HIGH Published 2012-07-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon.

Affected configurations

• lawrence berkeley national laboratory arpwatch 2.1a15

References