CVE-2012-2653 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in arpwatch 2.1a15, affecting distributions like Red Hat, Debian, and Fedora, where the daemon fails to properly drop supplementary groups. This flaw, with a critical CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), allows remote attackers to potentially gain root privileges by chaining it with other vulnerabilities. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.1a15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lawrence_berkeley_national_laboratory:arpwatch:2.1a15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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arpwatch 2.1a15, as used by Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, and possibly others, does not properly drop supplementary groups, which might allow attackers to gain root privileges by leveraging other vulnerabilities in the daemon.
Jul 2, 2012arpwatch: fails to drop supplementary groups
May 24, 2012