CVE-2008-3074

plugin: improper Implementation of shellescape() (arbitrary code execution)

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" (exclamation point) shell metacharacter in (1) the filename of a tar archive and possibly (2) the filename of the first file in a tar archive, which is not properly handled by the VIM TAR plugin (tar.vim) v.10 through v.22, as demonstrated by the shellescape, tarplugin.v2, tarplugin, and tarplugin.updated test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712. NOTE: this issue has the same root cause as CVE-2008-3075. NOTE: due to the complexity of the associated disclosures and the incomplete information related to them, there may be inaccuracies in this CVE description and in external mappings to this identifier.

CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 3.8% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Redhat Vim

Products

Enterprise Linux Tar.vim Vim

CVE-2008-3075

plugin: improper Implementation of shellescape() (arbitrary code execution)

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" (exclamation point) shell metacharacter in (1) the filename of a ZIP archive and possibly (2) the filename of the first file in a ZIP archive, which is not properly handled by zip.vim in the VIM ZIP plugin (zipPlugin.vim) v.11 through v.21, as demonstrated by the zipplugin and zipplugin.v2 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712. NOTE: this issue has the same root cause as CVE-2008-3074. NOTE: due to the complexity of the associated disclosures and the incomplete information related to them, there may be inaccuracies in this CVE description and in external mappings to this identifier.

CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 4.3% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Redhat Vim

Products

Enterprise Linux Vim Zipplugin.vim

CVE-2026-39881

Vim Ex command injection in Vims NetBeans integration

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316.

CVSS 3.1 · 5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-35177

Path traversal issue with zip.vim in Vim

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0280, a path traversal bypass in Vim's zip.vim plugin allows overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives, circumventing the previous fix for CVE-2025-53906. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0280.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

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Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-28418

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Emacs tags parsing

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0074, a heap-based buffer overflow out-of-bounds read exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file, Vim can be tricked into reading up to 7 bytes beyond the allocated memory boundary. Version 9.2.0074 fixes the issue.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

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Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-26269

Vim has a Netbeans specialKeys Stack Buffer Overflow

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.1.2148, a stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's NetBeans integration when processing the specialKeys command, affecting Vim builds that enable and use the NetBeans feature. The Stack buffer overflow exists in special_keys() (in src/netbeans.c). The while (*tok) loop writes two bytes per iteration into a 64-byte stack buffer (keybuf) with no bounds check. A malicious NetBeans server can overflow keybuf with a single specialKeys command. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.2148.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

Products

Vim

CVE-2026-28419

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Underflow in Emacs tags parsing

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0075, a heap-based buffer underflow exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file where a delimiter appears at the start of a line, Vim attempts to read memory immediately preceding the allocated buffer. Version 9.2.0075 fixes the issue.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-28420

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Overflow and OOB Read in :terminal

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0076, a heap-based buffer overflow WRITE and an out-of-bounds READ exist in Vim's terminal emulator when processing maximum combining characters from Unicode supplementary planes. Version 9.2.0076 fixes the issue.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

Products

Vim

CVE-2026-28422

Vim has stack-buffer-overflow in build_stl_str_hl()

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0078, a stack-buffer-overflow occurs in `build_stl_str_hl()` when rendering a statusline with a multi-byte fill character on a very wide terminal. Version 9.2.0078 patches the issue.

CVSS 3.1 · 2.2 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim

CVE-2024-43802

heap-buffer-overflow in ins_typebuf() in Vim < 9.1.0697

Vim is an improved version of the unix vi text editor. When flushing the typeahead buffer, Vim moves the current position in the typeahead buffer but does not check whether there is enough space left in the buffer to handle the next characters. So this may lead to the tb_off position within the typebuf variable to point outside of the valid buffer size, which can then later lead to a heap-buffer overflow in e.g. ins_typebuf(). Therefore, when flushing the typeahead buffer, check if there is enough space left before advancing the off position. If not, fall back to flush current typebuf contents. It's not quite clear yet, what can lead to this situation. It seems to happen when error messages occur (which will cause Vim to flush the typeahead buffer) in comnination with several long mappgins and so it may eventually move the off position out of a valid buffer size. Impact is low since it is not easily reproducible and requires to have several mappings active and run into some error condition. But when this happens, this will cause a crash. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0697. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

Products

Vim

CVE-2026-34714

vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via crafted file

Vim before 9.2.0272 allows code execution that happens immediately upon opening a crafted file in the default configuration, because %{expr} injection occurs with tabpanel lacking P_MLE.

CVSS 3.1 · 9.2 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

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Vim

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Vim

CVE-2025-53906

Vim has path traversal issue with zip.vim and special crafted zip archives

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1551, a path traversal issue in Vim’s zip.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct user interaction. However, successfully exploitation can lead to overwriting sensitive files or placing executable code in privileged locations, depending on the permissions of the process editing the archive. The victim must edit such a file using Vim which will reveal the filename and the file content, a careful user may suspect some strange things going on. Successful exploitation could results in the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Version 9.1.1551 contains a patch for the vulnerability.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-33412

Vim affected by Command injection via newline in glob()

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0202, a command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's glob() function on Unix-like systems. By including a newline character (\n) in a pattern passed to glob(), an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary shell commands. This vulnerability depends on the user's 'shell' setting. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0202.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

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Vim

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Vim

CVE-2026-32249

NFA regex engine NULL pointer dereference affects Vim < 9.2.0137

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.0011 to before 9.2.0137, Vim's NFA regex compiler, when encountering a collection containing a combining character as the endpoint of a character range (e.g. [0-0\u05bb]), incorrectly emits the composing bytes of that character as separate NFA states. This corrupts the NFA postfix stack, resulting in NFA_START_COLL having a NULL out1 pointer. When nfa_max_width() subsequently traverses the compiled NFA to estimate match width for the look-behind assertion, it dereferences state->out1->out without a NULL check, causing a segmentation fault. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0137.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim

CVE-2025-66476

Vim for Windows Uncontrolled Search Path Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1947, an uncontrolled search path vulnerability on Windows allows Vim to execute malicious executables placed in the current working directory for the current edited file. On Windows, when using cmd.exe as a shell, Vim resolves external commands by searching the current working directory before system paths. When Vim invokes tools such as findstr for :grep, external commands or filters via :!, or compiler/:make commands, it may inadvertently run a malicious executable present in the same directory as the file being edited. The issue affects Vim for Windows prior to version 9.1.1947.

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Microsoft Vim

Products

Windows Vim

CVE-2022-2598

Out-of-bounds Write to API in vim/vim

Out-of-bounds Write to API in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0100.

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Debian Vim

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Debian Linux Vim

CVE-2019-12735

vim/neovim: ': source!' command allows arbitrary command execution via modelines

getchar.c in Vim before 8.1.1365 and Neovim before 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the :source! command in a modeline, as demonstrated by execute in Vim, and assert_fails or nvim_input in Neovim.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 19.0% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Neovim Redhat Vim

Products

Neovim Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus and 1 more

CVE-2025-53905

Vim has path traversial issue with tar.vim and special crafted tar files

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1552, a path traversal issue in Vim’s tar.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted tar archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct user interaction. However, successfully exploitation can lead to overwriting sensitive files or placing executable code in privileged locations, depending on the permissions of the process editing the archive. The victim must edit such a file using Vim which will reveal the filename and the file content, a careful user may suspect some strange things going on. Successful exploitation could results in the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Version 9.1.1552 contains a patch for the vulnerability.

CVSS 3.1 · 4.1 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

Products

Vim

CVE-2024-22667

vim: Stack buffer over flow in did_set_langmap function in map.c

Vim before 9.0.2142 has a stack-based buffer overflow because did_set_langmap in map.c calls sprintf to write to the error buffer that is passed down to the option callback functions.

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Fedoraproject Vim

Products

Fedora Vim

CVE-2024-41957

Vim double free in src/alloc.c:616

Vim is an open source command line text editor. Vim < v9.1.0647 has double free in src/alloc.c:616. When closing a window, the corresponding tagstack data will be cleared and freed. However a bit later, the quickfix list belonging to that window will also be cleared and if that quickfix list points to the same tagstack data, Vim will try to free it again, resulting in a double-free/use-after-free access exception. Impact is low since the user must intentionally execute vim with several non-default flags, but it may cause a crash of Vim. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0647

CVSS 3.1 · 4.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Vim

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Vim