CVE-2026-43961
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.
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- Published by NVD
- Last updated by NVD
- First covered by RedTeamDaily
Coverage
Debian issues vim security update fixing 40 vulnerabilities
Debian advisory DSA-6600-1 covers 40 CVEs in Vim, spanning path traversal in the tar and zip plugins, buffer overflows and underflows, out-of-bounds reads and writes, crashes, and command or code injection. Several issues are reachable through netrw, NetBeans, completion, spell files and tag files, so the risk comes from opening untrusted content. Systems running Vim should install the Debian update.
Sources: NVD and CISA known exploited vulnerabilities catalogue.