CVE-2007-2438
Published May 2, 2007
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.6
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- Successful exploitation requires that the "modelines" option is enabled and the user is tricked into opening a malicious file.
- Solution
- Successful exploitation requires that the "modelines" option is enabled and the user is tricked into opening a malicious file.
Configurations
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"negate": false,
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"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "52F637E4-13E6-4B05-9F8A-A1D408ED4CF2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
},
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4A9EFB35-7AFD-4306-BC1C-EB5C984F4B3C"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
],
"operator": "AND"
}
]