CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5303

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2012-10-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-59

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.

Affected configurations

• monkey-project monkey 0.9.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References