CVE-2001-0409: Vim Development Group Vim

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Vim Development Group Vim: version 5.7 only

Published 2001-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.