CVE-2000-0972

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 22, 2001
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Nov 24, 2000

Description

HP-UX 11.00 crontab allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -e option by creating a symlink to the target file during the crontab session, quitting the session, and reading the error messages that crontab generates.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

hp-crontab-read-files(5410)vdb-entry
20001020 [ Hackerslab bug_paper ] HP-UX crontab temporary file symbolic link vulnerabilitymailing-list

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