CVE-2017-1000382: Vim

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VIM version 8.0.1187 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a swap file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME].swp") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the vi binary.

Affected products

• Vim Vim: up to and including 8.0.1187

Published 2017-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.