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CVE-2012-4443

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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 uses a real UID of root and a real GID of root during execution of CGI scripts, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging cgi-bin write access.

Affected products

• monkey: 0.9.3

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688008
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/10
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688008
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/10

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