CVE-2016-3992: cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in…

PriorityP425medium6.2CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUINSUCNIHAN

EPSS

0.35%

27.6th percentile

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cronic_project	cronic	—	—
cronic_project	cronic	>= 0 < 3-1	3-1
cronic_project	cronic	>= 0 < 3-1	3-1
cronic_project	cronic	>= 0 < 3-1	3-1
cronic_project	cronic	>= 0 < 3-1	3-1
debian	cronic	< cronic 3-1 (bookworm)	cronic 3-1 (bookworm)
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
opensuse	leap	—	—
opensuse	opensuse	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.2MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

osv6.2MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.2MEDIUM

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