CVE-2008-2712

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

16/06/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim::::::::		6.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim::::::::	7.0 (including)	7.1.314 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2008-2712

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools