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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3076

Original release date:02/21/2009

Last revised:05/14/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/25/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Vim packages, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. Note: This CVE is mentioned in the text of RHSA-2008:0580 (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html), as it was originally used to track multiple issues. Issues that affected Vim packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 were later assigned separate CVE identifier - CVE-2008-6235. Neither of issues currently covered by CVE-2008-3076 (insufficient shell escaping in mz and mc commands) affected Vim packages shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080707 Re: More arbitrary code executions in Netrw version 125, Vim 7.2a.10

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/07/4