CVE-2012-4442

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

monkey: 0.9.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3

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