CVE-2012-4442

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.7/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Oct 5, 2012
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2012-4442: Medium severity, CVSS 4.7 | Vulnix