crontab by Paul Vixie uses predictable file names for a temporary file and does not properly ensure that the file is owned by the user executing the crontab -e command, which allows local users with write access to the crontab spool directory to execute arbitrary commands by creating world-writeable temporary files and modifying them while the victim is editing the file.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-01-22T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T05:45:37.339Z
Reserved: 2000-12-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2000-1096

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Status : Modified
Published: 2001-01-09T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:33:59.900
Link: CVE-2000-1096

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