CVE-2007-2953

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file, related to the helptags command.

Affected products

Vim Development Group Vim: through 6.4; 7.0, 7.1, 7.1.38

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/25941
http://secunia.com/advisories/26285
http://secunia.com/advisories/26522
http://secunia.com/advisories/26594
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653
http://secunia.com/advisories/26674
http://secunia.com/advisories/26822
http://secunia.com/advisories/32858
http://secunia.com/advisories/33410
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-66/advisory/
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-001.htm

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