Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-2653

Title: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Arpwatch

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-2653.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 12, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.83%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

lawrence_berkeley_national_laboratory 1

suse 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-2653 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 12, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.