Vulnerabilities > VIM Development Group

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2007-07-31 CVE-2007-2953 Remote Format String vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM 7.0/7.1/7.1.38
Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file, related to the helptags command.
6.8
2007-05-02 CVE-2007-2438 Remote Code Execution vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM 7.0
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.
network
high complexity
foresight-linux vim-development-group
7.6
2005-07-26 CVE-2005-2368 OS Command Injection vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM
vim 6.3 before 6.3.082, with modelines enabled, allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) glob or (2) expand commands of a foldexpr expression for calculating fold levels.
network
vim-development-group CWE-78
critical
9.3
2005-01-13 CVE-2005-0069 Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM
The (1) tcltags or (2) vimspell.sh scripts in vim 6.3 allow local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
local
low complexity
vim-development-group
4.6
2005-01-10 CVE-2004-1138 Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM
VIM before 6.3 and gVim before 6.3 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a file containing a crafted modeline that is executed when the file is viewed using options such as (1) termcap, (2) printdevice, (3) titleold, (4) filetype, (5) syntax, (6) backupext, (7) keymap, (8) patchmode, or (9) langmenu.
local
low complexity
vim-development-group
7.2
2002-12-23 CVE-2002-1377 Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM
vim 6.0 and 6.1, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands using the libcall feature in modelines, which are not sandboxed but may be executed when vim is used to edit a malicious file, as demonstrated using mutt.
local
low complexity
vim-development-group
4.6
2001-06-18 CVE-2001-0409 Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM 5.7
vim (aka gvim) allows local users to modify files being edited by other users via a symlink attack on the backup and swap files, when the victim is editing the file in a world writable directory.
local
low complexity
vim-development-group
2.1
2001-06-18 CVE-2001-0408 Unspecified vulnerability in VIM Development Group VIM 5.7
vim (aka gvim) processes VIM control codes that are embedded in a file, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands when another user opens a file containing malicious VIM control codes.
network
high complexity
vim-development-group
5.1