CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4442
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• monkey-project monkey 0.9.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3 www.openwall.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879 bugs.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3 www.openwall.com