CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17087
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-668
Description
fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group (which may be different from the group ownership of the original file), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group membership, as demonstrated by /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow mode 0640, but /etc/.shadow.swp owned by root:users mode 0640, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-1000382.
Affected configurations
• vim vim (< 8.0.1263)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/27/2 Mailing List
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=166 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5a73e0ca54c77e067c3b12ea6f35e3e8681e8cf8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/sRT9BtjLWMk/BRtSXNU4BwAJ Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4582-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/27/2 Mailing List
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=166 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5a73e0ca54c77e067c3b12ea6f35e3e8681e8cf8 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/sRT9BtjLWMk/BRtSXNU4BwAJ Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4582-1/ Third Party Advisory