CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-28421
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122, CWE-20
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a swap file. Version 9.2.0077 fixes the issue.
Affected configurations
• vim vim (< 9.2.0077)
Related
References
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/65c1a143c331c886dc28 Patch
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0077 Product
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-r2gw-2x48-jj5p Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory