CVE-2017-1000382

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.5) in vim vim. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VIM version 8.0.1187 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a swap file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME].swp") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the vi binary.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-200
Published: 2017-10-31
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vim:vim

References

http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=120
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/31/1
http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=120
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/31/1

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