CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0316

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-01-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-01-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in src/if_python.c in the Python interface in Vim before 7.2.045 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983), as demonstrated by an erroneous search path for plugin/bike.vim in bicyclerepair.

Affected configurations

• vim vim (<= 7.2) • vim vim 1.0 • vim vim 1.22 • vim vim 3.0 • vim vim 4.0 • vim vim 5.0 • vim vim 5.1 • vim vim 5.2 • vim vim 5.3 • vim vim 5.4 • vim vim 5.5 • vim vim 5.6 • vim vim 5.7 • vim vim 5.8 • vim vim 6.0 • vim vim 6.1 • vim vim 6.2 • vim vim 6.3 • vim vim 6.4 • vim vim 7.0 • vim vim 7.1

References