{"id":"CVE-2019-9705","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-9705","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:36:23.835Z","title":"Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large crontab file because an unlimited number of lines is accepted.","description":"Vixie Cron before the 3.0pl1-133 Debian package allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large crontab file because an unlimited number of lines is accepted.","published":"2019-03-12T01:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:44:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["cron project/cron","debian/debian linux","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.00368,"percentile":0.30449,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107378","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00029.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DU7HAUAQR4E4AEBPYLUV6FZ4PHKH6A2/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/26814a26","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107378","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00025.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00029.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DU7HAUAQR4E4AEBPYLUV6FZ4PHKH6A2/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/commit/26814a26","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9705","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}