{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-07-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "plugin: lack of sanitization throughout netrw.vim can lead to arbitrary code execution",
    "id" : "467439",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467439"
  },
  "details" : [ "The Netrw plugin (netrw.vim) in Vim 7.0 and 7.1 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename used by the (1) \"D\" (delete) command or (2) b:netrw_curdir variable, as demonstrated using the netrw.v4 and netrw.v5 test cases." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0580",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "vim-2:7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-6235\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6235" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-6235",
  "csaw" : false
}