{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2023-06-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "vim: buffer overflow",
    "id" : "2216287",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2216287"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VIM v.8.1.2135 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the operand parameter.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in Vim. This issue allows a heap buffer overflow leading to a write access violation. This flaw allows the attacker to possibly have control over the write address and value, which may lead to an application crash." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a Low security impact, because the \"victim\" has to run an untrusted file IN SCRIPT MODE. Someone who is running untrusted files in script mode is equivalent to someone just taking a random python script and running it.\nFor additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Virtualization 4",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-20703\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-20703" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-20703",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}