Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4101

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-18 17:47:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:00:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to (1) execute arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that contains a ";" (semicolon) followed by a command, or execute arbitrary Ex commands by entering an argument after a (2) "Ctrl-]" (control close-square-bracket) or (3) "g]" (g close-square-bracket) keystroke sequence, a different issue than CVE-2008-2712.