CVE-2012-2653

Arpwatch vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Affected product

Arpwatch

CVSS vector

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

Published

2012-07-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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