🛡️ CVE-2026-39881 — vim

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level 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 low, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-39881 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2026-39881 is recorded against 1 package.

  • vim (fixed in 9.2.0316)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 April 2026 and last revised on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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CVE-2026-39881 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-08
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vim — 9.2.0316

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