OESA-2026-2863 vim security update

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Securi...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-8451-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8451-1 advisory. Srinivas Piskala Ganesh Babu discovered that Vim incorrectly handled...

USN-8451-1 vim vulnerabilities

Srinivas Piskala Ganesh Babu discovered that Vim incorrectly handled directory names when serializing browsed paths to the netrw history file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2026-47162 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled step-definition pattern...

USN-8451-1: Vim vulnerabilities

Srinivas Piskala Ganesh Babu discovered that Vim incorrectly handled directory names when serializing browsed paths to the netrw history file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2026-47162 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled step-definition pattern...

CVE-2026-47162

Vim (with the netrw plugin) is affected by CVE-2026-47162 due to a Vimscript code injection in s:NetrwBookHistSave() when serializing directory paths to the history file ~/.vim/.netrwhist. A directory name from the filesystem can be interpolated into a single-quoted Vimscript string literal witho...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-47162

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0495, a Vimscript code injection vulnerability exists in s:NetrwBookHistSave in the netrw...