Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2607

Title: Paul Vixie Vixie Cron

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-2607.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 25, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.57%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2607: do_command.c in Vixie cron (vixie-cron) 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in /etc/security/limits.conf.

Impacted Vendors

paul_vixie 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134194 http://secunia.com/advisories/20380 http://secunia.com/advisories/20388 http://secunia.com/advisories/20616 http://secunia.com/advisories/21032 http://secunia.com/advisories/21702 http://secunia.com/advisories/35318 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016480 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-168.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-32.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435033/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178431 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26691 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10213 https://usn.ubuntu.com/778-1/ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134194 http://secunia.com/advisories/20380 http://secunia.com/advisories/20388 http://secunia.com/advisories/20616 http://secunia.com/advisories/21032 http://secunia.com/advisories/21702 http://secunia.com/advisories/35318 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-07.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016480 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-168.htm http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-32.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0539.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435033/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178431 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26691 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10213 https://usn.ubuntu.com/778-1/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2607 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 25, 2006 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.