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CVE-2005-1038

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Paul Vixie Vixie Cron: 4.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20666
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24995
• 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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