Security Advisory

CVE-2001-0559

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-03-09 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 04:21:38
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.