CVE-2001-0556: Nedit

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Nirvana Editor (NEdit) 5.1.1 and earlier allows a local attacker to overwrite other users' files via a symlink attack on (1) backup files or (2) temporary files used when nedit prints a file or portions of a file.

Affected products

• Nedit Nedit: up to and including 5.1.1

Published 2001-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.