{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-0559 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0559 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2001-0559 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2001-0559 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2001-0559 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-0559 exists.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0559/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0559/index.md)","id":"CVE-2001-0559","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0559/index.md","name":"CVE-2001-0559","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-xxwc-wcp3-hfp4"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Unix cron daemon","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can gain additional privileges by exploiting improper privilege dropping in Vixie cron when an editor is invoked after a parsing error.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"vixie_cron","vendor":"paul_vixie"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2001-05-07","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2001-05-07","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"20822","stars":null,"title":"Vixie Cron crontab 3.0 - Privilege Lowering Failure (1)"},{"date":"2001-07-05","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"20823","stars":null,"title":"Vixie Cron crontab 3.0 - Privilege Lowering Failure (2)"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2001-0559","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2001"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2001-0560"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2001-0558"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2002-03-09","related":[{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-2607","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-05-25"},{"cvss_score":4.6,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2001-0560","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2002-03-09"},{"cvss_score":3.7,"headline":"Race condition in n/a","id":"CVE-2000-1096","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2001-01-22"},{"cvss_score":2.1,"headline":"Misconfiguration in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-1856","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-04-18"},{"cvss_score":2.1,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2005-1038","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2005-04-10"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-08","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A local attacker can gain additional privileges by exploiting improper privilege dropping in Vixie cron when an editor is invoked after a parsing error.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-0559/"}