Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-1248

vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap' options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline is opened.

  • Published: Nov 23, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-1248
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.8
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vim / vim - 8.0.0055.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x