CVE-2007-1856: paul_vixie vixie_cron

EPSS trend

Probability

0.38%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026

EPSS score

0.38%

Known exploited

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Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

References

26 links

lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.htmlMailing ListX Refsource FULLDISC
secunia.com/advisories/27886Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229VDB EntryX Refsource VUPEN
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSE
www.securitytracker.com/id?1018081VDB EntryX Refsource SECTRACK
secunia.com/advisories/24995Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-261.htmX Refsource CONFIRM
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-11.xmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource GENTOO
secunia.com/advisories/25321Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11463VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL

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secunia.com/advisories/25723Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:234Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource MANDRIVA
secunia.com/advisories/26909Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
www.securityfocus.com/bid/23520VDB EntryX Refsource BID
secunia.com/advisories/27706Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0345.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource REDHAT
secunia.com/advisories/24905Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIA
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0345Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235880REPORT
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ARTICLE
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223662REPORT
security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2007/rhsa-2007_0345.jsonAdvisory
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1856REPORT
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235882REPORT
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1856Advisory
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1856Advisory

Related vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0559paul_vixievixie_cron1.10%24y ago09-03-2002 05:00crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.CVE-2001-0560paul_vixievixie_cron0.51%24y ago09-03-2002 05:00Buffer 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).CVE-2005-1038paul_vixievixie_cron+30.54%21y ago10-04-2005 04:00crontab in Vixie cron 4.1, when running with the -e option, allows local users to read the cron files of other users by changing the file being edited to a symlink. NOTE: there is insufficient information to know whether this is a duplicate of CVE-2001-0235.CVE-2000-1096paul_vixievixie_cron0.79%25y ago22-01-2001 05:00crontab 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.CVE-1999-0872calderaopenlinux+30.36%26y ago04-02-2000 05:00Buffer overflow in Vixie cron allows local users to gain root access via a long MAILTO environment variable in a crontab file.CVE-1999-0297bsdibsd_os+30.40%26y ago04-01-2000 05:00Buffer overflow in Vixie Cron library up to version 3.0 allows local users to obtain root access via a long environmental variable.

All vulnerabilities invixie_cron

CVE-2007-1856: paul_vixie vixie_cron

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