{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2023-04-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "vim: out-of-range Pointer offset in mb_charlen() of mbyte.c",
    "id" : "2196578",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196578"
  },
  "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-823",
  "details" : [ "Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1499.", "An out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability was found in Vim's mb_charlen() function of the src/mbyte.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering the vulnerability that causes an application to crash, leading to a denial of service." ],
  "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 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "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"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2426\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2426\nhttps://huntr.dev/bounties/3451be4c-91c8-4d08-926b-cbff7396f425" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-2426",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}