Inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem for file-system event notification, with a compact vulnerability footprint centered on tools and daemons that expose or consume its API, such as incron and inotify-tools. The durable signal reflects memory-safety concerns in monitoring and event-handling code, with observed weakness classes clustering around buffer-boundary violations and related low-level implementation issues; current severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Inotify over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
3 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2007-5037MEDIUM Buffer overflow in the inotifytools_snprintf function in src/inotifytools.c in the inotify-tools library before 3.11 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code vi | Sep 24, 2007 | 6.8 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-3589MEDIUM incron 0.5.5 does not initialize supplementary groups when running a process from a user's incrontabs, which causes the process to be run with the incrond supplementary groups and | Oct 8, 2009 | 4.6 | 14 | NO | NO |
Unspecified vulnerability in inotify before 0.3.5 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "access rights to watched files." | Jan 31, 2007 | 2.1 | 11 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (3 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Inotify.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Inotify — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.