CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
97.1%
Ulf Harnhammar discovered that vim does not properly sanitise the
βhelptags_one()β function when running the βhelptagsβ command.
By tricking a user into running a crafted help file, a remote attacker
could execute arbitrary code with the userβs privileges.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-common | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-full | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-gnome | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-gtk | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-perl | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-python | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-ruby | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-tcl | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.04 | noarch | vim-tiny | <Β 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 | UNKNOWN |