Vim heap-based Buffer Overflow (CVE-2021-3778)

Advisory ID CVE Number Date discovered Severity Advisory revision
STORM-2021-061 CVE-2021-3778 10/26/2021 medium v1

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in vim can lead to buffer overflow and impact confidentiality, availability and integrity.

Impacted products

ProductsSeverityDetail
Stormshield Network Security medium SNS is impacted

Revisions

Version Date Description
v1 12/08/2021 Initial release

 



Stormshield Network Security

CVSS v3.1 Overall Score: 5.7      

Analysis

Impacted version
If an administrator opens a malicious crafted file with vim, this can generate a buffer overflow on vim and depending on the crafted file, this can lead to a crash of vim, memory corruption or a RCE attack.
  • SNS 3.0.0 to 3.7.22
  • SNS 3.8.0 to 3.11.10
  • SNS 4.0.0 to 4.2.6

Workaround solution

Solution

There is no workaround solution.

The vulnerability is fixed in versions:

  • 3.7.23
  • 3.11.11
  • 4.2.7


Attack Vector Attack Complexity Privileges Required User Interaction Scope Confidentiality Impact Integrity Impact Availability impact
Local High High Required Unchanged High High High
CVSS Base score: 6.3 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Exploit Code Maturity Remediation Level Report Confidence
Proof of concept code Official fix Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 5.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
Confidentiality Requirement Integrity Requirement Availability Requirement
High High High
CVSS Environmental score: 5.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C/CR:H/IR:H/AR:H/MAV:X/MAC:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MS:X/MC:X/MI:X/MA:X)