CVE-2008-3076

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

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.

Affected products

vim/vim: 7.2a.10

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://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122416184431388&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/2008/10/20/2
http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html

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