Vim has Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Emacs tags parsing (vim vim)

CVE-2026-28418
MEDIUM 4.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 17 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0074, a heap-based buffer overflow out-of-bounds read exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file, Vim can be tricked into reading up to 7 bytes beyond the allocated memory boundary. Version 9.2.0074 fixes the issue.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
vim · vimaffected < 9.2.0074

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD