Vulnerability CVE-2008-3074
Published: 2009-02-21   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" (exclamation point) shell metacharacter in (1) the filename of a tar archive and possibly (2) the filename of the first file in a tar archive, which is not properly handled by the VIM TAR plugin (tar.vim) v.10 through v.22, as demonstrated by the shellescape, tarplugin.v2, tarplugin, and tarplugin.updated test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712. NOTE: this issue has the same root cause as CVE-2008-3075. NOTE: due to the complexity of the associated disclosures and the incomplete information related to them, there may be inaccuracies in this CVE description and in external mappings to this identifier.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Collection of Vulnerabilities in Fully Patched Vim 7.1
Jan Minar
24.02.2009

Type:

CWE-78

 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') )

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
VIM -> Tar.vim 
VIM -> VIM 

 References:
http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467428
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32462
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html
http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-shellescape.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/01/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/10/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/08/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:236
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0324
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10754
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121494431426308&w=2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506919
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