CVE-2008-4101: Vim

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 9.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to (1) execute arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that contains a ";" (semicolon) followed by a command, or execute arbitrary Ex commands by entering an argument after a (2) "Ctrl-]" (control close-square-bracket) or (3) "g]" (g close-square-bracket) keystroke sequence, a different issue than CVE-2008-2712.

Affected products

• Vim Vim: up to and including 7.2; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; …

Published 2008-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.