A vulnerability was found in vim in how certain modeline options were treated. An attacker could craft a file that, when opened in vim with modelines enabled, could execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the user running vim.
Find out more about CVE-2016-1248 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.8 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | Partial |
CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity Impact | High |
Availability Impact | High |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (vim) | RHSA-2016:2972 | 2016-12-21 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (vim) | RHSA-2016:2972 | 2016-12-21 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | vim | Will not fix |
Disabling modeline support in .vimrc by adding "set nomodeline" will prevent exploitation of this flaw. By default, modeline is enabled for ordinary users but disabled for root.