Vulnerability in Vim Netrw
CVE-2008-4677
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."
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (79.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30670 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31464 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/2f6fad581a037971/a5fcf4c49… (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/20/2 (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/2 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495436 (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2379 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/34418 (third-party-advisory)