FKIE_CVE-2026-39881

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-08 21:17 - Updated: 2026-07-24 21:10
Severity
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7ab76a86048ed492374ac6b19Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0316Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-mr87-rhgv-7pw6Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vim vim *
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