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CVE-2012-4442

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4442 describes a race condition vulnerability in Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3, where the server improperly retains root's supplementary group IDs when operating as a non-root user, potentially allowing local users to bypass file-read restrictions. With a CVSS score of 4.7, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but could lead to complete confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage. The EPSS and FAUCET scores indicate a very low probability of exploitation in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:monkey-project:monkey:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.7MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 20th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3