Vulnerability CVE-2005-1038
Published: 2005-05-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Paul vixie -> Vixie cron 

 References:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11104
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