CVE-2016-3992

MEDIUM 6.2CVE-2016-3992 · Published 26/07/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-3992 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.2) vulnerability affecting cronic (cronic project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.35%, higher than 28.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cronic cronic_project	`= 2`	No fix yet

Description

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html · Third Party Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Third Party Advisory

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