CVE-2005-1038: Paul Vixie Vixie Cron

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Paul Vixie Vixie Cron: version 4.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.