VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-4442
CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-10-05
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
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.