CVE-2007-2953: Vim Development Group Vim

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file, related to the helptags command.

Affected products

• Vim Development Group Vim: up to and including 6.4; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.38 only

Published 2007-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.