CVE-2002-1377

published 2002-12-23

CVE-2002-1377: vim 6.0 and 6.1, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands using the libcall feature in modelines, which are not sandboxed…

Priority P4 20 medium 4.6 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

vim 6.0 and 6.1, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands using the libcall feature in modelines, which are not sandboxed but may be executed when vim is used to edit a malicious file, as demonstrated using mutt.

Affected

16 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	vim	< vim 6.1.263-1 (bookworm)	vim 6.1.263-1 (bookworm)
vim	vim	>= 0 < 6.1.263-1	6.1.263-1
vim	vim	>= 0 < 6.1.263-1	6.1.263-1
vim	vim	>= 0 < 6.1.263-1	6.1.263-1
vim	vim	>= 0 < 6.1.263-1	6.1.263-1
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—
vim_development_group	vim	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 4.6 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.6 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 4.6 MEDIUM

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