How severe is CVE-2017-17087?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-17087?

This is classified as CWE-668, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-17087

MEDIUM Year: 2017

CVSS v3 Score

5.5

Medium

CVSS v2 Score

2.1

Low

Weakness Type

CWE-668

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Vulnerability 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.

CVE-2005-2351

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

Mutt before 1.5.20 patch 7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a series of requests to mutt temporary files.

CWE-6682005

CVE-2008-2544

MEDIUM

CVSS:5.5(Medium)

Mounting /proc filesystem via chroot command silently mounts it in read-write mode. The user could bypass the chroot environment and gain write access to files, he would never have otherwise.

CWE-6682008