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CVE-2012-5303

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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-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 products

• monkey: 0.9.3

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672425
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55905
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672425
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55905

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