CVE-2001-0559: Paul Vixie Vixie Cron

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.

Affected products

• Paul Vixie Vixie Cron: up to and including 3.0.1

Published 2001-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.