CVSS 3.1
4.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCVE-2023-48234
Medium (4.3). EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When getting the count for a normal mode z command, it may overflow for large counts given. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `58f9befca1` which has been included in release version 9.0.2109. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- vim:vim
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/16/1
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/58f9befca1fa172068effad7f2ea5a9d6a7b0cca
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-59gw-c949-6phq
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UJAK2W5S7G75ETDAEM3BDUCVSXCEGRD/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M3VQF7CL3V6FGSEW37WNDFBRRILR65AK/