CVE-2000-0972: HP HP-Ux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HP-UX 11.00 crontab allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -e option by creating a symlink to the target file during the crontab session, quitting the session, and reading the error messages that crontab generates.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.