CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1138

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-01-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

VIM before 6.3 and gVim before 6.3 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a file containing a crafted modeline that is executed when the file is viewed using options such as (1) termcap, (2) printdevice, (3) titleold, (4) filetype, (5) syntax, (6) backupext, (7) keymap, (8) patchmode, or (9) langmenu.

Affected configurations

• vim development group vim 5.0 • vim development group vim 5.1 • vim development group vim 5.2 • vim development group vim 5.3 • vim development group vim 5.4 • vim development group vim 5.5 • vim development group vim 5.6 • vim development group vim 5.7 • vim development group vim 5.8 • vim development group vim 6.0 • vim development group vim 6.1 • vim development group vim 6.2 • vim development group vim 6.3.011 • vim development group vim 6.3.025 • vim development group vim 6.3.030 • vim development group vim 6.3.044

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