National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4677
Original release date:10/22/2008
Last revised:04/01/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
autoload/netrw.vim (aka the Netrw Plugin) 109, 131, and other versions before 133k for Vim 7.1.266, other 7.1 versions, and 7.2 stores credentials for an FTP session, and sends those credentials when attempting to establish subsequent FTP sessions to servers on different hosts, which allows remote FTP servers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by logging usernames and passwords. NOTE: the upstream vendor disputes a vector involving different ports on the same host, stating "I'm assuming that they're using the same id and password on that unchanged hostname, deliberately."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/25/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of vim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461750
External Source: XF
Name: vim-netrw-ftp-information-disclosure(44419)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2379
External Source: BID
Name: 30670
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080812 Vim: Netrw: FTP User Name and Password Disclosure
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080812 Re: Vim: Netrw: FTP User Name and Password Disclosure
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw-credentials-dis.html
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081020 CVE request (vim)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081016 CVE request - Vim netrw.plugin
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081006 CVE request - (vim : netrw plugin - ftp user credentials disclosure)
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:236
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34418
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31464
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:007
External Source: MLIST
Name: [vim_dev] 20080817 Re: Anyone fixing SA31464?