{"id":"CVE-2012-2653","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-2653","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:57:58.203Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2012-07-12T20:55:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:41:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":10,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["lawrence berkeley national laboratory/arpwatch"],"epss":{"score":0.03202,"percentile":0.88049,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082553.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082565.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082569.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2481","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:113","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/12","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/13","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/24/14","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/25/5","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-16","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2653","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}