Vim Ex command injection in Vims NetBeans integration (vim vim)

CVE-2026-39881
MEDIUM 5.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.62 % · percentile 50 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
vim · vimaffected < 9.2.0316

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