CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0409

2.1 LOW Published 2001-06-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

vim (aka gvim) allows local users to modify files being edited by other users via a symlink attack on the backup and swap files, when the victim is editing the file in a world writable directory.

Affected configurations

• vim development group vim 5.7

References