CVE-2005-0069 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Vim 6.3 through its tcltags or vimspell.sh scripts. Attackers can exploit this by creating symbolic links to temporary files, allowing them to overwrite or create arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability requires local access and has a low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.3.011CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.011:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3.025CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.025:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3.030CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.030:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3.044CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vim_development_group:vim:6.3.044:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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