Description
HP-UX 11.00 crontab allows local users to read arbitrary files via the -e option by creating a symlink to the target file during the crontab session, quitting the session, and reading the error messages that crontab generates.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 2
- HP-UX 11.00/10.20 crontab - Overwrite Files EDB-195 · dos · Nov 19, 2000 · verified
- HP-UX 10.20/11.0 - crontab '/tmp' File EDB-20329 · local · Oct 20, 2000 · verified
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