CVE-2012-5303: Monkey-Project Monkey

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a PID file, as demonstrated by a pathname different from the default /var/run/monkey.pid pathname.

Affected products

• Monkey-Project Monkey: version 0.9.3 only

Published 2012-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.