Vulnerability CVE-2012-4442


Published: 2012-10-05   Modified: 2012-10-06

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.7/10
6.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
None
None
Affected software
Monkey-project -> Monkey http daemon 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007

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