CVE-2000-1178: Joseph Allen Joe

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Joe text editor follows symbolic links when creating a rescue copy called DEADJOE during an abnormal exit, which allows local users to overwrite the files of other users whose joe session crashes.

Affected products

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