CVE-2001-0685 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Thibault Godouet FCron prior to 1.1.1 allows a local user to corrupt another user's crontab file via a symlink attack on the fcrontab temporary file.

Published: 2002-03-09

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.1.0:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0671	Thibault Godouet FCron prior to 1.1.1 allows a local user to corrupt another user's crontab file via a symlink attack on the fcrontab temporary file.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0016.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://fcron.free.fr/CHANGES.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=98339581702282&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2835
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7127

History

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Thibault Godouet Fcron

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:05.986Z

Reserved: 2001-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0685

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-09-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0685

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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