CVE-2008-3076: Vim

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the execute and system functions within the (1) mz and (2) mc commands, as demonstrated by the netrw.v2 and netrw.v3 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712.

Affected products

• Vim Vim: version 7.2a.10 only

Published 2009-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.