CVE-2001-0559

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMar 9

1st PoCMay 7

exploitation probability

1.1%top 37% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/20822 exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/20823

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References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6508 http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-054 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-050.php3 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_017_cron_txt.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/183029 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2687