Security Advisory

CVE-2000-1096

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-01-22 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 05:45:37
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.