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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:21:38.708Z

Reserved: 2001-07-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-0559

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-08-14T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-20T23:35:38.993

Link: CVE-2001-0559

cve-icon Redhat

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