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CVE-2017-11109

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-11109 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability (invalid free) in Vim 8.0, potentially leading to other unspecified impacts, triggered by a specially crafted source file. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: vim
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: vim
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-11109Low

vim: Use-after-free via crafted file

Jul 7, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html
usn.ubuntu.com / 4309-1