Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Fixed packages 2

Vulnerabilities 4

• High 7.3
  CVE-2026-47162

  Vim: Vimscript Code Injection in netrw NetrwBookHistSave() via crafted directory name

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0495, a Vimscript code injection vulnerability exists in s:NetrwBookHistSave() in the netrw plugin (runtime/pack/dist/opt/netrw/autoload/netrw.vim) when serializing browsed directory paths …

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Jun 11, 2026
• High 7.3
  CVE-2026-52858

  Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Python Omni-Completion

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0561, the Python omni-completion script in python3complete.vim for Vim with the +python3 interpreter enabled (and the legacy pythoncomplete.vim for builds with the +python interpreter) exec…

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Jun 11, 2026
• Medium 5.1
  CVE-2026-47167

  Vim: Vimscript Code Injection in cucumber filetype plugin via crafted step-definition regex

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0496, a code injection vulnerability exists in s:stepmatch() in the cucumber filetype plugin (runtime/ftplugin/cucumber.vim) on Vim builds with +ruby support. Step-definition patterns read …

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  Jun 11, 2026
• Low 3.6
  CVE-2026-46483

  Vim: Command injection in tar#Vimuntar via missing shellescape {special} flag

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0479, a command injection vulnerability exists in tar#Vimuntar() in runtime/autoload/tar.vim when decompressing .tgz archives on Unix-like systems. The function builds :!gunzip and :!gzip -d comman…

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi
  May 15, 2026

References

• article
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477915
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487964
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487981
• report
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487996
• advisory
  https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_38510.json
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46483
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46483
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46483
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3fb5e58fbc63d86a3e65f1a141b0d67af2aa38a1
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0479
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-2fpv-9ff7-xg5w
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-47162
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47162
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47162
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f08ab2f4d7d2947c8dd6c179ae08ee6146a2694b
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0495
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-crm5-rh6j-2c7c
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-47167
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47167
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47167
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a65a52d684bc58535ad28a4ae824d22e76399934
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0496
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-4473-94jm-w5x9
• report
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52858
• advisory
  https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52858
• advisory
  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52858
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4b850457e12e1a678dd209f2868154f7553cbf8d
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0561
• article
  https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-52mc-rq6p-rc7c