CVE-2025-29768
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-13 17:04
Modified
2025-03-13 18:39
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Vim, a text editor, is vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files in versions prior to 9.1.1198. The impact is medium because a user must be made to view such an archive with Vim and then press 'x' on such a strange filename. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1198.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f209dcd3defb95bae21b2740910e6aa7bb940531
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-693p-m996-3rmf
Impacted products
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vim vim Version: < 9.1.1198
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