CVE-2011-1073: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

crontab.c in crontab in FreeBSD and Apple Mac OS X allows local users to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file and (2) perform MD5 checksum comparisons on arbitrary pairs of files via two symlink attacks on /tmp/crontab.XXXXXXXXXX temporary files.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: any version
• Freebsd Freebsd: any version

Published 2011-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.