CVE-2012-4442

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 5, 2012
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Aug 21, 2012

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
[oss-security] 20120920 Re: CVE-request: monkey fails to drop supplemental groups when lowering privilegesmailing-list
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007

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