Monkey HTTP Daemon has local security bypass

Monkey HTTP Daemon: broken user name authentication

The web server Monkeyd produces a world-readable log (/var/log/monkeyd/master.log) on gentoo.

Monkey HTTP Server before 1.5.3, when the File Descriptor Table (FDT) is enabled and custom error messages are set, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via an HTTP request that triggers an error message.

The mkrequestheaderprocess function in mkrequest.c in Monkey 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (thread crash and service outage) via a '\0' character in an HTTP request.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Directory Listing plugin in Monkey HTTP Daemon (monkeyd) 1.2.2 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a file name.

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.

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check.

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 uses a real UID of root and a real GID of root during execution of CGI scripts, which might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging cgi-bin write access.