CVE-2026-41411

6.6 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.6) in vim vim. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., `command`), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.6 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2026-04-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vim:vim

References

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c78194e41d5a0b05b0ddf383b6679b1503f977fb
https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0357
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-cwgx-gcj7-6qh8

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