CVE-2026-28418

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.5) in vim vim. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-122, CWE-125
Published: 2026-02-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vim:vim

References

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f6a7f469a9c0d09e84cd6cb
https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0074
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-h4mf-vg97-hj8j
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/27/7

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