CVE-2005-0069: Vim Development Group Vim

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

The (1) tcltags or (2) vimspell.sh scripts in vim 6.3 allow local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Vim Development Group Vim: version 6.3.011 only; version 6.3.025 only; version 6.3.030 only; version 6.3.044 only

Published 2005-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.