Vulnerability CVE-2008-3076
Published: 2009-02-21   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the execute and system functions within the (1) mz and (2) mc commands, as demonstrated by the netrw.v2 and netrw.v3 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712.

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 -> VIM 

 References:
http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html
http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/4
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43624
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30115
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/20/2
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://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122416184431388&w=2
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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