CVE-2002-1377: Vim Development Group Vim

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 file, as demonstrated using mutt.

Affected products

• Vim Development Group Vim: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; …

Published 2002-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.