CVE-2010-3914

critical
Published 2010-11-03 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VIM Development Group GVim before 7.3.034, and possibly other versions before 7.3.46, allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse User32.dll or other DLL that is located in the same folder as a .TXT file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27
{Vendor advisory: vultures@jpcert.or.jp โ€” ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.034}

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vimgvim{"endIncluding":"7.3.033"}
vimgvim7.3.01
vimgvim7.3.02
vimgvim7.3.03
vimgvim7.3.04
vimgvim7.3.05
vimgvim7.3.06
vimgvim7.3.07
vimgvim7.3.08
vimgvim7.3.09
vimgvim7.3.010
vimgvim7.3.011
vimgvim7.3.012
vimgvim7.3.013
vimgvim7.3.014
vimgvim7.3.015
vimgvim7.3.016
vimgvim7.3.017
vimgvim7.3.018
vimgvim7.3.019
vimgvim7.3.020
vimgvim7.3.021
vimgvim7.3.022
vimgvim7.3.023
vimgvim7.3.024
vimgvim7.3.025
vimgvim7.3.026
vimgvim7.3.027
vimgvim7.3.028
vimgvim7.3.029
vimgvim7.3.030
vimgvim7.3.031
vimgvim7.3.032

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.