Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0560

Title: Vixie cron long username buffer overflow allows local privilege escalation

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0560.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 22, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0560: Buffer 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).

Impacted Vendors

paul_vixie 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0197.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/immunix/2001-q1/0066.html http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17048&apar=only http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17261&apar=only http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-022.php3 http://www.osvdb.org/5583 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-014.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6098 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0197.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/immunix/2001-q1/0066.html http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17048&apar=only http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=IY17261&apar=only http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-022.php3 http://www.osvdb.org/5583 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-014.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6098

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0560 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 22, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.