CVE-2012-4443 — Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 uses a real UID of root and a real GID of root during execution of CGI scripts, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging cgi-bin write access

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Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 uses a real UID of root and a real GID of root during execution of CGI scripts, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging cgi-bin write access

Published Oct 5, 2012

6.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.38%

Description

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 uses a real UID of root and a real GID of root during execution of CGI scripts, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging cgi-bin write access.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.38% 0.00377

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00377

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 (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.38% (0.00377)	29.26th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.38% (0.00377)	29.26th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00069)	18.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 4, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	73.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	52.35th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688008
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/10
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Link	Providers	Tags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688008		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/10		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner redhat

Published Oct 5, 2012

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Aug 21, 2012

Link CVE-2012-4443

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-4443

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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