CVE-2001-0685

Exp

Thibault Godouet FCron prior to 1.1.1 allows a local user to corrupt another user's crontab file via a symlink attack on the fcrontab temporary file.

Published: 2001-09-20 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2001-0685 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.77%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2001-0685

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
20905 exploit_db edb 2001-06-07 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2001-0685

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.16% 0.77% +0.61%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.16% +0.12%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2001-0685

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 1.9 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2001-0685

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2001-0685

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
thibault_godouet fcron 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
thibault_godouet fcron 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
thibault_godouet fcron 1.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
thibault_godouet fcron 1.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
thibault_godouet fcron 1.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:thibault_godouet:fcron:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2001-0685

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