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CVE-2000-0972

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2000-12-19 · updated 2026-09-23
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

HP-UX 11.00 crontab allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -e option by creating a symlink to the target file during the crontab session, quitting the session, and reading the error messages that crontab generates.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.00

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0317.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5410
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-10/0317.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5410

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