Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-1038

Title: Vixie cron crontab arbitrary file read via symlink

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-1038.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 02, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-1038: crontab 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.

Impacted Vendors

paul_vixie 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U http://secunia.com/advisories/19532 http://secunia.com/advisories/20666 http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11104 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U http://secunia.com/advisories/19532 http://secunia.com/advisories/20666 http://secunia.com/advisories/24995 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-118.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_007_suse.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-361.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0117.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395093 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13024 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11104

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-1038 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.

May 02, 2005 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:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.