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Low 1.9Published Mar 4, 2011

CVE-2011-1073crontab.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) perfor…

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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.

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CVSS
1.9 LOW (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
apple mac_os_x
apple:mac_os_x
all versions
NVD
freebsd freebsd
freebsd:freebsd
all versions
NVD

References

References

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