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High RHSA-2026:55431 8 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 10.0 EUS enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 vim 2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4
Red Hat · RHEL 10.0 EUS enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 vim-common 2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4
Red Hat · RHEL 10.0 EUS enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 vim-enhanced 2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4
Red Hat · RHEL 10.0 EUS enterprise_linux_eus:10.0 vim-X11 2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.4

Vulnerabilities 8

  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-57456

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Python Omni-Completion Docstrings

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0699, Vim's Python omni-completion (runtime/autoload/python3complete.vim and the legacy pythoncomplete.vim) executes reconstructed function and class definitions from the current buffer with exec()…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-59856

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via PHP Omni-Completion

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0736, the PHP omni-completion script in runtime/autoload/phpcomplete.vim interpolates a class or trait name, taken from the contents of the edited buffer, into a search() pattern that is run via wi…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-59858

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via C Omni-Completion

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0735, the C omni-completion script in runtime/autoload/ccomplete.vim interpolates the typeref: or typename: extension field of a tags entry, without escaping, into a :vimgrep pattern that is run th…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Alpine
  • 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
  • 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
  • Medium 5.7
    CVE-2026-55693

    Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0653, the tree_count_words() function in src/spellfile.c fills in the word-count fields of a spell-file word trie by walking it iteratively with a depth counter. The counter is bounded only by the …

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
  • 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
  • Medium 4.0
    CVE-2026-57455

    Vim: Stack out-of-bounds write in `spell_soundfold_sofo()` via an over-length `soundfold()` argument

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0698, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sofo() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SOFO (sound-folding) byte map into a caller-owned result buffer. Its copy loop advance…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • 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
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492968
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492972
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492980
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2498867
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2498868
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_55431.json
  • 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
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55693
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55693
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55693
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a80874d9b84a01040e3d1aef2d4a59e1934dafb7
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0653
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-wgh4-64f7-q3jq
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-57455
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-57455
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57455
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/497f931f85339d175d7f69588dd249e8ccfed41b
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0698