Privilege Escalation via Crontab Parsing in Vixie Cron 3.0.1 and Earlier

CVE-2001-0559 · HIGH Severity

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

crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.

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