CVE-2010-0424
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.3
Description
The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedorahosted | cronie | {"endIncluding":"1.4.3"} | |
| paul_vixie | vixie_cron | | |
References
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38700
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38741
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0424
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.