CVE-2010-1160: GNU Nano

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU nano before 2.2.4 does not verify whether a file has been changed before it is overwritten in a file-save operation, which allows local user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an attacker-owned file that is being edited by the victim.

Affected products

• GNU Nano: up to and including 2.2.3; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.5.4 only; …

Published 2010-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.