{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1248 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2016-1248 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-1248 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-1248 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 23 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1248 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1248/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1248/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-1248","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1248/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-1248","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2016-1248","DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1248","DLA-718-1","DSA-3722-1","GHSA-6q4x-827v-ffwx","RHSA-2016:2972","SUSE-SU-2016:2938-1","SUSE-SU-2016:2942-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1248","USN-3139-1"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Vim text editor","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening files with malicious modelines in 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8.0.0056"],"published":"2016-11-23","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL 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