CVE-2008-2538

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in crontab on Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to insert cron jobs into the crontab files of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8, 9, 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30482
http://secunia.com/advisories/30542
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020151
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237864-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-222.htm
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1714
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42763
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4725
http://secunia.com/advisories/30482
http://secunia.com/advisories/30542
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020151
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-237864-1

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