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CVE-2008-3075

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

• vim/vim: 7.0, 7.1, 7.1.266, 7.1.314, 7.2, 7.2a.10
• vim Zipplugin.Vim: v.11, v.12, v.13, v.14, v.15, v.16 (+5)

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506919
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121494431426308&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0324
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:236
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/08/12
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/10/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/4

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