ping in iputils before 20001010, as distributed on Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 7J and other operating systems, does not drop privileges after acquiring a raw socket, which increases ping's exposure to bugs that otherwise would occur at lower privileges.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This vulnerability has a 1.97% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.