CVE-2011-1073

no score yetEPSS 0.4%

No CVSS score yet. 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.

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2011-03-04
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

apple:mac_os_x
freebsd:freebsd

References

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=129891323028897&w=2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/14
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/6
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8117
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516716/100/0/threaded

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