CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43961
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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-94
Description
A flaw was found in Vim's netrw plugin. A crafted filename containing quote characters and expression fragments can break out of the quoted context during mark/unmark operations, allowing arbitrary Vimscript execution. This can be leveraged to run shell commands with the privileges of the user running Vim.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:57614 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43961 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460434 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-66hr-7p6x-x5j3 github.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/14/7 www.openwall.com