CVE-2023-4781

Publication date 5 September 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1873.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.1
	23.04 lunar	Fixed 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.13
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.20
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6452-1
Vim vulnerabilities
25 October 2023

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