CVE-2007-2438: Vim Development Group Vim

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Vim Development Group Vim: version 7.0 only

Published 2007-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.