Karol Więsek wrote:
but also checks entrys, so attacker is only able to read properly formated crontab files (another users crontabs).
It should be noted that files other than crontabs are valid files as far as cron is concerned. This is because crontabs may contain variable assignments and comments. This means that it may be possible to read other configuration files or scripts that confirm to the syntax used by cron.
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