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CVE-2007-2438

The sandbox for vim allows dangerous functions such as (1) writefile, (2) feedkeys, and (3) system, which might allow user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands and write files via modelines.

Published

2007-05-02T21:19:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.6 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: HIGH
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

4.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	foresight_linux	foresight_linux	1.1	No
Application	vim_development_group	vim	7.0	Yes

References

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html ([email protected])
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 ([email protected])
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 Exploit ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/36250 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 ([email protected])
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 ([email protected])
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 ([email protected])
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 ([email protected])
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 ([email protected])
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 ([email protected])
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html ([email protected])
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 ([email protected])
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 ([email protected])
http://www.vim.org/news/news.php ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 ([email protected])
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9876 ([email protected])
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://osvdb.org/36250 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vim.org/news/news.php (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9876 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)