CVE-2017-17087

medium

Published 2017-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	9.0	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected
ubuntu	18.04	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:8.0.1401-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:8.0.1401-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:8.0.1401-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:8.0.1401-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:8.0.1401-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vim	vim	`{"endExcluding":"8.0.1263"}`	`8.0.1263`

References

CWEs

CWE-668

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.