Vulnerability in Monkey-Project Monkey
CVE-2012-4442
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.
EPSS: 0.003 (23.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Monkey-project Monkey — versions 0.9.3
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)