CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-1161

3.7 LOW Published 2010-04-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-04-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in GNU nano before 2.2.4, when run by root to edit a file that is not owned by root, allows local user-assisted attackers to change the ownership of arbitrary files via vectors related to the creation of backup files.

Affected configurations

• gnu nano (<= 2.2.3) • gnu nano 0.5.0 • gnu nano 0.5.1 • gnu nano 0.5.2 • gnu nano 0.5.3 • gnu nano 0.5.4 • gnu nano 0.5.5 • gnu nano 0.6.0 • gnu nano 0.6.1 • gnu nano 0.6.2 • gnu nano 0.6.3 • gnu nano 0.6.4 • gnu nano 0.6.5 • gnu nano 0.6.6 • gnu nano 0.6.7 • gnu nano 0.6.8 • gnu nano 0.6.9 • gnu nano 0.7.0 • gnu nano 0.7.1 • gnu nano 0.7.2 • gnu nano 0.7.3 • gnu nano 0.7.4 • gnu nano 0.7.5 • gnu nano 0.7.6 • gnu nano 0.7.7 • gnu nano 0.7.8 • gnu nano 0.7.9 • gnu nano 0.8.0 • gnu nano 0.8.1 • gnu nano 0.8.2 • gnu nano 0.8.3 • gnu nano 0.8.4 • gnu nano 0.8.5 • gnu nano 0.8.6 • gnu nano 0.8.7 • gnu nano 0.8.8 • gnu nano 0.8.9 • gnu nano 0.9.0 • gnu nano 0.9.1 • gnu nano 0.9.2 • gnu nano 0.9.3 • gnu nano 0.9.4 • gnu nano 0.9.5 • gnu nano 0.9.6 • gnu nano 0.9.7 • gnu nano 0.9.8 • gnu nano 0.9.9 • gnu nano 0.9.10 • gnu nano 0.9.11 • gnu nano 0.9.12 • gnu nano 0.9.13 • gnu nano 0.9.14 • gnu nano 0.9.15 • gnu nano 0.9.16 • gnu nano 0.9.17 • gnu nano 0.9.18 • gnu nano 0.9.19 • gnu nano 0.9.20 • gnu nano 0.9.21 • gnu nano 0.9.22 … and 81 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References