PT-2012-5403 · Monkey · Monkey Http Daemon

John Lightsey · Published 2012-10-05 · Updated 2020-03-26 · CVE-2012-4442

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.7

Medium

Base vector

AV: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.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4442

Affected Products

Monkey Http Daemon

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4442 · Security Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3 · Note
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007 · Note