CVE-2012-6110 — Vulnetix

CVE-2012-6110 REJECTED

bcron-exec in bcron before 0.10 does not close file descriptors associated with temporary files when running a cron job, which allows local users to modify job files and send spam messages by accessing an open file descriptor.

EPSS 0.07% · 20.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.07%

20.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	bcron	0

Exploit Intelligence

bcron-bcronexe-priv-esc(81383) (circl)
[oss-security] 20130116 bcron: cron jobs get access to the temporary output files from all other jobs that are still running (circl)
http://untroubled.org/bcron/NEWS (circl)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686650 (vulncheck-nvd)

Timeline

Sep 29, 2014 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
May 17, 2022 CVE Updated
May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6110 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6110 third-party-advisory

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