PT-2012-5403

CVE-2012-4442

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Published

2012-10-05

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Updated

2020-03-26

Description by

CVSS 2.0
4.7
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Monkey HTTP Daemon version 0.9.3
Description The issue allows local users to potentially bypass intended file-read restrictions. This is due to the software retaining the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, and a race condition in a file-permission check.
Recommendations For Monkey HTTP Daemon version 0.9.3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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