Security Advisory

CVE-2017-17087

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-01 08:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:59
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editors primary group (which may be different from the group ownership of the original file), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group membership, as demonstrated by /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow mode 0640, but /etc/.shadow.swp owned by root:users mode 0640, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-1000382.