CVE-2000-1137: GNU Ed

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU ed before 0.2-18.1 allows local users to overwrite the files of other users via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• GNU Ed: version 2.15 only; version 2.16tr only; version 2.18 only; version 2.18.0 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.