CVE-2000-0312: OpenBSD

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

Affected products

• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 2.5 only

Published 2001-03-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.