Insecure Temporary File Handling in crontab by Paul Vixie

CVE-2000-1096 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

crontab by Paul Vixie uses predictable file names for a temporary file and does not properly ensure that the file is owned by the user executing the crontab -e command, which allows local users with write access to the crontab spool directory to execute arbitrary commands by creating world-writeable temporary files and modifying them while the victim is editing the file.

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