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OESA-2025-1943 (CVE-2025-53905)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-08-01 11:09 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:09 – Source website

Summary

vim security update

Details

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.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1552, a path traversal issue in Vim’s tar.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted tar archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct user interaction. However, successfully exploitation can lead to overwriting sensitive files or placing executable code in privileged locations, depending on the permissions of the process editing the archive. The victim must edit such a file using Vim which will reveal the filename and the file content, a careful user may suspect some strange things going on. Successful exploitation could results in the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Version 9.1.1552 contains a patch for the vulnerability.(CVE-2025-53905)

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1551, a path traversal issue in Vim’s zip.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct user interaction. However, successfully exploitation can lead to overwriting sensitive files or placing executable code in privileged locations, depending on the permissions of the process editing the archive. The victim must edit such a file using Vim which will reveal the filename and the file content, a careful user may suspect some strange things going on. Successful exploitation could results in the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Version 9.1.1551 contains a patch for the vulnerability.(CVE-2025-53906)

Severity

4.1 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53905	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53906	ADVISORY

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CVE-2025-53905 (GCVE-0-2025-53905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-15 20:48 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:12

Title

Vim has path traversial issue with tar.vim and special crafted tar files

Summary

Severity

4.1 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-07-18 14:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GH…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/87757c6b0a4b2c1…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/15/1

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
vim	vim	Affected: < 9.1.1552

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CVE-2025-53906 (GCVE-0-2025-53906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-15 20:52 – Updated: 2026-04-01 18:17

Title

Vim has path traversal issue with zip.vim and special crafted zip archives

Summary

Severity

4.1 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-07-18 14:44 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GH…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/586294a04179d85…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/15/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/01/4

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
vim	vim	Affected: < 9.1.1551

Show details on NVD website

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