Vim Development Group vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Vim Development Group has 8 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Vim, with 8. If you run Vim Development Group software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Vim Development Group products have the most vulnerabilities?

Vim leads with 8 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Vim8
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Vim Development Group vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Vim Development Group's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Vim Development Group flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 4.2%

    Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a...

    CVSS6.8Published31 Jul 2007
  2. 3.2%

    The sandbox for vim allows dangerous functions such as (1) writefile, (2) feedkeys, and (3) system, which might allow user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands and write files via modelines.

    CVSS7.6Published2 May 2007
  3. 2.7%

    vim 6.3 before 6.3.082, with modelines enabled, allows external user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) glob or (2) expand commands of a foldexpr expression for...

    CVSS9.3Published26 Jul 2005
  4. 1.7%

    vim (aka gvim) processes VIM control codes that are embedded in a file, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands when another user opens a file containing malicious VIM control codes.

    CVSS5.1Published18 Jun 2001
  5. 0.7%

    vim (aka gvim) allows local users to modify files being edited by other users via a symlink attack on the backup and swap files, when the victim is editing the file in a world writable directory.

    CVSS2.1Published18 Jun 2001
  6. 0.5%

    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...

    CVSS4.6Published23 Dec 2002
  7. 0.4%

    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,...

    CVSS7.2Published10 Jan 2005
  8. 0.4%

    The (1) tcltags or (2) vimspell.sh scripts in vim 6.3 allow local users to overwrite or create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

    CVSS4.6Published13 Jan 2005
Every product

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Our catalogue lists 8 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 21 versions from Vim Development Group.

None of Vim Development Group's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Vim, with 8 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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