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CVE-2008-2538
Unspecified vulnerability in crontab on Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to insert cron jobs…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.25%
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- mitre
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in crontab on Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_93, allows local users to insert cron jobs into the crontab files of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- 237864 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-222.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1714 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30482 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4725 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1020151 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 30542 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- solaris-crontab-code-execution(42763) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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