CVE-2026-39881 (GCVE-0-2026-39881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-08 20:18
Modified
2026-04-09 13:50
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
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.
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vim vim Version: < 9.2.0316
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