CVE-2001-0560

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2001-0560 · Published 22/08/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0560 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting vixie cron (paul vixie).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.51%, higher than 43.3% 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	`≤ 3.0.1.56`	No fix yet

Buffer overflow in Vixie cron 3.0.1-56 and earlier could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long username (> 20 characters).

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

≤ 3.0.1.56

No fix yet

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