CVE-2003-1056: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ed editor for Sun Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2003-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.