CVE-2012-4442

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7 EPSS 0.31%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2012-10-05 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE

CVE-2012-4442

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS

4.7

EPSS

0.31%

Original NVD 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.