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CVE-2011-1074

Status: ModifiedLow (1.9)—

crontab.c in crontab in FreeBSD allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary directories via a command-line argument composed of a directory name concatenated with a directory traversal sequence that leads to the /etc/crontab pathname.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Freebsd — Freebsd

CWEs

References

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