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CVE-2000-0579: IRIX crontab creates temporary files with predictable file names and with the umask of the user, which could allow local users to modify…

LowCVSS 3.7 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 14/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.34% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

IRIX crontab creates temporary files with predictable file names and with the umask of the user, which could allow local users to modify another user's crontab file as it is being edited.

Published
Jun 21, 2000
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 28th percentile
CWE
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Action score

14

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
14 / 40 · 3.7 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

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sgiirix

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • sgi irix6.3
  • sgi irix6.5

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2001-0797Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large…
    69This week
  • CVE-2001-0800lpsched in IRIX 6.5.13f and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
    56Plan
  • CVE-2000-1221The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems authenticates by comparing the reverse-resolved…
    45Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2000-0245Mar 27, 2000 · Vulnerability in SGI IRIX objectserver daemon allows remote attackers to create user accounts.
    44Plan
  • ← EarlierCVE-2000-0283Apr 12, 2000 · The default installation of IRIX Performance Copilot allows remote attackers to access sensitive system information via the pmcd daemon.
    26Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2000-0733Oct 20, 2000 · Telnetd telnet server in IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 does not properly cleans user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to…
    44Plan

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
P · data can be read
Integrity
P · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
P · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
High
Confidentiality impact
P
Integrity impact
P
Availability impact
P

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

nvd-primary

Attack context

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