Vulnerability: Symlink Attack on Backup and Swap Files in Vim

CVE-2001-0409 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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