CVE-2010-0424
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (28th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0455)
- Published
- February 25, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0455 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedorahosted / cronie
- paul vixie / vixie cron
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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38741(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48104
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38391
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565809
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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