CVE-2008-2712
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · Improper input validation
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
Vim 7.1.314, 6.4, and other versions allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via Vim scripts that do not properly sanitize inputs before invoking the execute or system functions, as demonstrated using (1) filetype.vim, (3) xpm.vim, (4) gzip_vim, and (5) netrw. NOTE: the originally reported version was 7.1.314, but the researcher actually found this set of issues in 7.1.298. NOTE: the zipplugin issue (originally vector 2 in this identifier) has been subsumed by CVE-2008-3075.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)15%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121494431426308&w=2Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30731Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32858Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32864Advisory