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CVE-2010-1160

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

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: through 2.2.3; 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5 (+134)

References

• http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2010-04/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39444
• http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/4
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023891
• http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2010-04/msg00000.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39444
• http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/4
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023891

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