PT-2007-3769 · Vim+1 · Vim+1

Published 2007-05-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2007-2438

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.6

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions vim (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the sandbox in vim, which permits dangerous functions such as (1) writefile, (2) feedkeys, and (3) system. This could allow user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands and write files via modelines.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2438

DSA-1364-1

DSA-1364-2

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11497-1

RHSA-2007:0346

RHSA-2007_0346

Affected Products

Red Hat

Vim

References · 44

• 🔥 http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2438 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2438 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11497-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-2438 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2438 · Security Note
• http://trustix.org/errata/2007/0017 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 · Vendor Advisory