CVE-2012-6097: Fedorahosted Cronie

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

File descriptor leak in cronie 1.4.8, when running in certain environments, might allow local users to read restricted files, as demonstrated by reading /etc/crontab.

Affected products

• Fedorahosted Cronie: version 1.4.8 only

Published 2013-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.