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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27423

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-03-03 17:15 – Updated: 2025-03-05 05:26 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Details

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Vim is distributed with the tar.vim plugin, that allows easy editing and viewing of (compressed or uncompressed) tar files. Starting with 9.1.0858, the tar.vim plugin uses the ":read" ex command line to append below the cursor position, however the is not sanitized and is taken literally from the tar archive. This allows to execute shell commands via special crafted tar archives. Whether this really happens, depends on the shell being used ('shell' option, which is set using $SHELL). The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1164

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-27423	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27423	REPORT
	https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GH…	REPORT
	https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/129a8446d23cd9c…	REPORT
	https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/334a13bff78aa0a…	REPORT

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CVE-2025-27423 (GCVE-0-2025-27423)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-03 16:30 – Updated: 2025-05-02 23:03

Title

Improper Input Validation in Vim

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-03 18:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GH…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/129a8446d23cd9c…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/334a13bff78aa0a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025050…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
vim	vim	Affected: < 9.1.1164

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