CVE-2008-3432: Vim

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames, as demonstrated by the netrw.v3 test case.

Affected products

• Vim Vim: version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only

Published 2008-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.