Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0409 - Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM 5.7
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Vim 5.x Swap File Race Condition Vulnerability. CVE-2001-0409. Local exploit for linux platform |
| id | EDB-ID:20967 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 2001-01-26 |
| published | 2001-01-26 |
| reporter | zen-parse |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/20967/ |
| title | Vim 5.x Swap File Race Condition Vulnerability |