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CVE-2011-3603

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3603 describes a vulnerability in the router advertisement daemon (radvd) prior to version 1.8.2, where improper error handling in the privsep_init function causes the daemon to run with root privileges, leading to an unspecified impact. With a CVSS score of 4.4, this vulnerability is considered of medium severity, requiring local access and moderate attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:litech:router_advertisement_daemon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-3603Moderate

radvd: daemon would not fail on privsep_init() causing it to run with full root privileges

Oct 4, 2011

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2011-3603
litech.org / radvd/CHANGES
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/10/06/3