CVE-2026-25749 (GCVE-0-2026-25749)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-06 22:43 – Updated: 2026-02-09 15:26
VLAI
Title
Heap Overflow in Vim
Summary
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file resolution logic when processing the 'helpfile' option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in src/tag.c. When processing help file tags, Vim copies the user-controlled 'helpfile' option value into a fixed-size heap buffer of MAXPATHL + 1 bytes (typically 4097 bytes) using an unsafe STRCPY() operation without any bounds checking. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.2132.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-09 15:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vim vim Affected: < 9.1.2132
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