8.6 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
9.3 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.0%
Vim is prone to a command injection vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900412");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-12-02 11:52:55 +0100 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2712", "CVE-2008-3074", "CVE-2008-3075", "CVE-2008-3076");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_name("Vim Shell Command Injection Vulnerability - Linux");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/30731/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32462");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-shellescape.html");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("login/SSH/success");
script_exclude_keys("ssh/no_linux_shell");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let the attacker execute arbitrary shell commands
to compromise the system.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Vim version prior to 7.2 on Linux.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This error is due to the 'filetype.vim', 'tar.vim', 'zip.vim', 'xpm.vim',
'xpm2.vim', 'gzip.vim', and 'netrw.vim' scripts which are insufficiently filtering special characters.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 7.2 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Vim is prone to a command injection vulnerability.");
exit(0);
}
include("ssh_func.inc");
sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection();
if(sock)
{
vimVer = ssh_cmd(socket:sock, cmd:"vim --version", timeout:120);
ssh_close_connection();
if("VIM" >< vimVer){
pattern = "Vi IMproved ([0-6](\..*)?|7\.[01](\..*)?)";
if(egrep(pattern:pattern, string:vimVer)){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}
}