CVE-2016-3992

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Published 2016-07-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.2

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2

4.9

VIR risk

6.2

Description

cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

62%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3992

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3-1`
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
cronic_project	cronic	`2`

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3992

CWEs

CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.