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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-7748-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265093

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7748-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled file extraction when opening maliciously crafted zip or tar archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to create or overwrite files on the system and execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7748-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265093

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7748-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2025

Updated: 9/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xxd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gui-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-tiny, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-athena, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-motif

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53905, CVE-2025-53906

IAVA: 2025-A-0527-S

USN: 7748-1