CVE-2001-0559

7.2

CVSS v2.0 Base Score

1.10%

LOW RiskEPSS (65th percentile)

NVD-CWE-Other

crontab 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.

Published: 8/14/2001

Modified: 6/16/2026

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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v2 Score

7.2

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

1.10%LOW Exploitation Risk

65th percentile

This vulnerability has a 1.10% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 65% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

NVD-CWE-Other

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