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High RHSA-2026:77359 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published Oct 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::appstream vim-common 2:8.0.1763-32.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos vim 2:8.0.1763-32.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2026-73073

    Vim: Arbitrary Ex Command Execution in C Omni-Completion

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0845, StructMembers() in runtime/autoload/ccomplete.vim constructs and executes a vimgrep command using an insufficiently escaped typeref: or typename: value from a tags file, allowing an untermina…

    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=2517950
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_77359.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73073
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73073
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73073
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2f628d8104958fa7421664f792ca6d4f7a39a10f
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0845
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-cx73-phcg-3j5g