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CVE-2001-0559

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2001-08-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Paul Vixie Vixie Cron

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References