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CVE-2005-0069

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0069 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Vim 6.3 through its tcltags or vimspell.sh scripts. Attackers can exploit this by creating symbolic links to temporary files, allowing them to overwrite or create arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability requires local access and has a low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.3.011CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.011:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3.025CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.025:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3.030CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.030:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3.044CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.044:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: vim-1:6.3.046-0.30E.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: vim-1:6.3.046-0.40E.4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0069Low

security flaw

Jan 9, 2005

References

marc.info
bugzilla.fedora.us / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/13841
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18870
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9402
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-036.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-122.html
PatchVendor Advisory