{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:26Z",
  "published": "2010-04-16T19:30:00Z",
  "id": "CVE-2010-1160",
  "details": "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.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/39444"
    },
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "http://drosenbe.blogspot.com/2010/03/nano-as-root.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2010-04/msg00000.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/nano/ChangeLog?revision=4503\u0026root=nano\u0026view=markup"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023891"
    }
  ]
}