CVE-2012-4442

Published Oct 5, 2012

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.7
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "89D1A368-548D-4F6E-BD32-5192A7B43BA5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References