$ cve CVE-2008-2712 JSON

CVE-2008-2712 EXPLOIT

9.3

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 15% (pctl 97)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Vim 7.1.314, 6.4, and other versions allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via Vim scripts that do not properly sanitize inputs before invoking the execute or system functions, as demonstrated using (1) filetype.vim, (3) xpm.vim, (4) gzip_vim, and (5) netrw. NOTE: the originally reported version was 7.1.314, but the researcher actually found this set of issues in 7.1.298. NOTE: the zipplugin issue (originally vector 2 in this identifier) has been subsumed by CVE-2008-3075.

Scoring

CVSS	9.3 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	15.04% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-20
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2008-06-16
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (2)

Vendor	Product
canonical	ubuntu linux
vim	vim

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Vim 7.x - Vim Script Multiple Command Execution Vulnerabilities	2008-06-14

References

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