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CVE-2012-2653

Date: July 12, 2012

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.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (15)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2653

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2653

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-2653

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2653

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-2653

Severity Score

9.8

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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