CVE-2012-2653
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 3.20% probability · 88th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- lawrence berkeley national laboratory/arpwatch
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 3.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.