CVE-2001-0559

HIGH 7.2CVE-2001-0559 · Published 14/08/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0559 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting vixie cron (paul vixie).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vixie cron paul_vixie	`≤ 3.0.1`	No fix yet

Description

crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.

References

debian.org/security/2001/dsa-054 · Vendor Advisory
linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-050.php3 · Patch
novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_017_cron_txt.html
securityfocus.com/archive/1/183029 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/2687 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6508

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

vixie cron

paul_vixie

≤ 3.0.1

No fix yet

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