CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4677

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2008-10-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-255

Description

autoload/netrw.vim (aka the Netrw Plugin) 109, 131, and other versions before 133k for Vim 7.1.266, other 7.1 versions, and 7.2 stores credentials for an FTP session, and sends those credentials when attempting to establish subsequent FTP sessions to servers on different hosts, which allows remote FTP servers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by logging usernames and passwords. NOTE: the upstream vendor disputes a vector involving different ports on the same host, stating "I'm assuming that they're using the same id and password on that unchanged hostname, deliberately."

Affected configurations

• vim netrw 109 • vim netrw 110 • vim netrw 111 • vim netrw 112 • vim netrw 113 • vim netrw 114 • vim netrw 115 • vim netrw 116 • vim netrw 118 • vim netrw 120 • vim netrw 121 • vim netrw 122 • vim netrw 123 • vim netrw 128 • vim netrw 131

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References