MEDIUM
jakarta-commons-daemon: jsvc does not drop capabilities allowing access to files and directories owned by the superuser
Published Aug 15, 2011
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 7.24%
Description
native/unix/native/jsvc-unix.c in jsvc in the Daemon component 1.0.3 through 1.0.6 in Apache Commons, as used in Apache Tomcat 5.5.32 through 5.5.33, 6.0.30 through 6.0.32, and 7.0.x before 7.0.20 on Linux, does not drop capabilities, which allows remote attackers to bypass read permissions for files via a request to an application.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
AND
AND
Running on/with
OR
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
Running on/with
- n/a
Configuration 2
AND
AND
OR
- 6.0.30
- 6.0.31
- 6.0.32
Running on/with
OR
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
Running on/with
- n/a
Configuration 3
AND
OR
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 7.0.0
- 7.0.0
- 7.0.1
- 7.0.2
- 7.0.3
- 7.0.4
- 7.0.5
- 7.0.6
- 7.0.7
- 7.0.8
- 7.0.9
- 7.0.10
- 7.0.11
- 7.0.12
- 7.0.13
- 7.0.14
- 7.0.16
- 7.0.17
- 7.0.19
Running on/with
- n/a
No data.
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1
n/a
Fixed · RHSA-2011:1291
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
jakarta-commons-daemon
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
jakarta-commons-daemon
Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1
jakarta-commons-daemon
Affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 | n/a | Fixed | RHSA-2011:1291 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | jakarta-commons-daemon | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | jakarta-commons-daemon | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1 | jakarta-commons-daemon | Affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
7.24% 0.07243
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.07243
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 7.24% (0.07243) | 94.15th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 7.24% (0.07243) | 93.51th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 8.78% (0.08784) | 91.69th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 10.63% (0.10633) | 88.75th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 8.78% (0.08784) | 91.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.20% (0.00200) | 58.90th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.20% (0.00200) | 56.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 7.34% (0.07344) | 92.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 7.34% (0.07344) | 91.87th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 7.34% (0.07344) | 80.64th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (33)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00024.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/commons-dev/201108.mbox/%3C4E451B2B.9090108%40apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201108.mbox/%3C4E45221D.1020306%40apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132215163318824&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469267822771&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136485229118404&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139344343412337&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://people.apache.org/~markt/patches/2011-08-12-cve2011-2729-tc5.patch x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46030 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57126 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025925 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1152701 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1153379 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1153824 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1291.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1292.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519263/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49143 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2729 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730400 x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69161 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-214 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/06cfb634bc7bf37af7d8f760f118018746ad8efbd519c4b789ac9c2e%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8dcaf7c3894d66cb717646ea1504ea6e300021c85bb4e677dc16b1aa%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3aacc40356defc3f248aa504b1e48e819dd0471a0a83349080c6bcbf%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r584a714f141eff7b1c358d4679288177bd4ca4558e9999d15867d4b5%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2729
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14743 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19450 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2729
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Aug 15, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 11, 2011
Link CVE-2011-2729
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a