CVE-2008-4101
Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to (1) execute arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that contains a ";" (semicolon) followed by a command, or execute arbitrary Ex commands by entering an argument after a (2) "Ctrl-]" (control close-square-bracket) or (3) "g]" (g close-square-bracket) keystroke sequence, a different issue than CVE-2008-2712.
- EPSS
- 9.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vim:vim
References
- http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.2/7.2.010
- http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/9290f26f9bc11b33/K-arbitrary-command-execution.patch.v3?part=2
- http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/dd32ad3a84f36bb2/K-arbitrary-command-execution.patch?part=2
- http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/1434d0812b5c817e/6ad2d5b50a96668e
- http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/9290f26f9bc11b33