FKIE_CVE-2005-1038
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2005-05-02 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:12
Severity
Summary
crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| paul_vixie | vixie_cron | 4.1 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0 |
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