CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0556

7.2 HIGH Published 2001-08-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The Nirvana Editor (NEdit) 5.1.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to overwrite other users' files via a symlink attack on (1) backup files or (2) temporary files used when nedit prints a file or portions of a file.

Affected configurations

• nedit nedit (<= 5.1.1)

References