CVE Catalog

CVE-2000-0312

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

Risk Assessment

Local users can gain unauthorized access to administrator privileges, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the system to a newer version of OpenBSD that fixes this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

cron in OpenBSD 2.5 allows local users to gain root privileges via an argv[] that is not NULL terminated, which is passed to cron's fake popen function.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS