CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-46483

7.0 HIGH Published 2026-05-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-78, CWE-88

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0479, a command injection vulnerability exists in tar#Vimuntar() in runtime/autoload/tar.vim when decompressing .tgz archives on Unix-like systems. The function builds :!gunzip and :!gzip -d commands using shellescape(tartail) without the {special} flag, allowing a crafted archive filename to trigger Vim cmdline-special expansion and execute shell commands in the user's context. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0479.

Affected configurations

• vim vim (< 9.2.0479)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

References