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CVE-2012-2653

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Arpwatch: 2.1a15

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html

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