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CVE-2010-1160
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…
- 1.9LowCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- [Nano-devel] 20100407 New prerelease for security tweaks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503&root=nano&view=markup (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100414 CVE request: GNU nano (minor) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1023891 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 39444 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-1190 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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