CVE-2016-3992: Cronic Project Cronic

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

Affected products

• Cronic Project Cronic: version 2 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only

Published 2016-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.