CVE-2008-3076 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2008-3076

The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows...

Vulnerability Description

The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the execute and system functions within the (1) mz and (2) mc commands, as demonstrated by the netrw.v2 and netrw.v3 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vim
Vulnerable Versions:
7.2a.10

Timeline

Official Publish: February 21st, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.