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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2000-1137 json

GNU ed before 0.2-18.1 allows local users to overwrite the files of other users via a symlink attack.

published 2001-01-09 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-1122

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

GNU ed before 0.2-18.1 allows local users to overwrite the files of other users via a symlink attack.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2000-1137 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 5.2 Red Hat Linux 6.0 Red Hat Linux 6.1 Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2000:123

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.