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High RHSA-2026:68711 14 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published Sep 18, 2026 · Updated Oct 14, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 vim 2:7.4.629-8.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 vim-common 2:7.4.629-8.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 vim-enhanced 2:7.4.629-8.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 vim-minimal 2:7.4.629-8.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7 vim-X11 2:7.4.629-8.el7_9.2

Vulnerabilities 14

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2026-73078

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Netrw Menu Construction

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0840, runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim loads netrw and runtime/pack/dist/opt/netrw/autoload/netrw.vim constructs Bookmarks, History, and Targets menu entries by interpolating attacker-controlled dire…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • High 8.5
    CVE-2026-73072 Public exploit

    Vim: Heap Buffer Overflow when Loading a Spell File

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0846, set_sofo() in src/spellfile.c reuses sl_sal_first[] without resetting values left by set_sal_first(), so a crafted spell file containing an SN_SAL section before an SN_SOFO section causes und…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • 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-2026-59858

    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 8.4
    CVE-2026-73076

    Vim: Arbitrary Command Execution via Malicious `.VimballRecord` Entry Replay in `vimball.vim`

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0847, runtime/autoload/vimball.vim allows a crafted vimball member named .VimballRecord to overwrite the installation record with attacker-chosen commands. When vimball#RmVimball() later processes …

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-34982

    Vim modeline bypass via various options affects Vim < 9.2.0276

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0276, a modeline sandbox bypass in Vim allows arbitrary OS command execution when a user opens a crafted file. The `complete`, `guitabtooltip` and `printheader` options are missing the `P_M…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux 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 6.6
    CVE-2026-41411

    Vim: Command injection via backtick expansion in tag filenames

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment …

    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 4.1
    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 vuln…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • 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
  • 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

References

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    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2455400
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