CVE-2008-3075 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2008-3075

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10,...

9.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" (exclamation point) shell metacharacter in (1) the filename of a ZIP archive and possibly (2) the filename of the first file in a ZIP archive, which is not properly handled by zip.vim in the VIM ZIP plugin (zipPlugin.vim) v.11 through v.21, as demonstrated by the zipplugin and zipplugin.v2 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712. NOTE: this issue has the same root cause as CVE-2008-3074. NOTE: due to the complexity of the associated disclosures and the incomplete information related to them, there may be inaccuracies in this CVE description and in external mappings to this identifier.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Vim has path traversial issue with tar.vim and special crafted tar files

Affected Vendor

vim

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Affected Software

vim, zipplugin.vim

Vulnerable Versions:

7.0, 7.1, 7.1.266, 7.1.314, 7.2, 7.2a.10, v.11, v.12, v.13, v.14, v.15, v.16, v.17, v.18, v.19, v.20, v.21

Timeline

Official Publish: February 21st, 2009

Last Modified: August 7th, 2024

Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.