Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2011-1073
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 1.9 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (35.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65899 (vdb-entry)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/14 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/46604 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/8117 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516716/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/6 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list, Exploit)