🛡️ CVE-2023-0288 — vim

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-122 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

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Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1189.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-0288 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2023-0288 is recorded against 1 package.

vim (fixed in 9.0.1189)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 January 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

seclists.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
support.apple.com
seclists.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
support.apple.com

CVE-2023-0288 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Alpine BellSoft Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.8

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

CWE CWE-122

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2023-01-13

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/232bdaaca98c34a99ffadf27bf6ee08be6cc8f6a

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
vim	—	9.0.1189

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Mar/17

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/232bdaaca98c34a99ffadf27bf6ee08be6cc8f6a

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/550a0852-9be0-4abe-906c-f803b34e41d3

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WYC22GGZ6QA66HLNLHCTAJU265TT3O33/

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213670

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Mar/17

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/232bdaaca98c34a99ffadf27bf6ee08be6cc8f6a

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/550a0852-9be0-4abe-906c-f803b34e41d3

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WYC22GGZ6QA66HLNLHCTAJU265TT3O33/

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213670

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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