CVE-2010-0424

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The edit_cmd function in crontab.c in (1) cronie before 1.4.4 and (2) Vixie cron (vixie-cron) allows local users to change the modification times of arbitrary files, and consequently cause a denial of service, via a symlink attack on a temporary file in the /tmp directory.

Affected products

Fedorahosted Cronie: through 1.4.3
Paul Vixie Vixie Cron: all versions

References

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38700
http://secunia.com/advisories/38741
http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cronie.git?p=cronie.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9e4a8fa5f9171fb724981f53879c9b20264aeb61
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035762.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38700
http://secunia.com/advisories/38741
http://secunia.com/advisories/48104

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