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Vim CVE-2026-57453

| EUVDEUVD-2026-39446 HIGH
Command Injection (CWE-77)
2026-06-25 GitHub_M
Command Injection Red Hat Vim Suse
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY
MEDIUM
qualitative
NVD
7.3 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
vuln.today AI
7.8 HIGH

Local delivery of a file the user must open gives AV:L/UI:R; no auth needed (PR:N); arbitrary command execution as the user justifies C:H/I:H/A:H with scope unchanged.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
7.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat
5.8 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

8
Analysis Updated
Jun 26, 2026 - 04:29 vuln.today
v3 (cvss_changed)
Analysis Updated
Jun 26, 2026 - 04:28 vuln.today
v2 (cvss_changed)
Re-analysis Queued
Jun 26, 2026 - 04:22 vuln.today
cvss_changed
Severity Changed
Jun 26, 2026 - 04:22 NVD
MEDIUM HIGH
CVSS changed
Jun 26, 2026 - 04:22 NVD
6.5 (MEDIUM) 7.3 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jun 25, 2026 - 17:02 EUVD
Source Code Evidence Fetched
Jun 25, 2026 - 16:25 vuln.today
Analysis Generated
Jun 25, 2026 - 16:25 vuln.today

DescriptionNVD

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.1784 until 9.2.0678, when the bundled zip plugin autoload/zip.vim falls back to PowerShell to browse, read, extract, update or delete entries in a zip archive, it builds the PowerShell command by inserting archive entry names that are quoted only for the shell, not for PowerShell. A crafted entry name can break out of the intended string context and cause PowerShell to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running Vim, triggered by opening, viewing or extracting the archive. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0678.

AnalysisAI

Arbitrary command execution in Vim's bundled zip plugin (autoload/zip.vim) affects builds from 9.1.1784 up to the 9.2.0678 fix on systems where the plugin falls back to PowerShell for archive operations. When browsing, reading, extracting, updating or deleting zip entries, the plugin quotes archive entry names for the shell but not for PowerShell, so a crafted entry name escapes the string context and runs attacker-supplied commands with the privileges of the user who merely opened or viewed the archive. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; risk is bounded to Windows/PowerShell-fallback deployments and requires user interaction.

Technical ContextAI

The flaw is a CWE-77 command injection inside Vim's runtime/autoload/zip.vim, which transparently lets users open and edit .zip files as if they were directories. On platforms where the GNU unzip/zip binaries are unavailable, the plugin builds PowerShell command strings (pwsh -NoProfile -Command ...) that embed .NET System.IO.Compression.ZipFile calls and the names of entries inside the archive. The vulnerable code used s:Escape(..., 1), applying shell-style quoting, to interpolate the attacker-controlled FullName/Name of zip entries directly into PowerShell command text. PowerShell parses quoting and subexpressions differently from POSIX shells, so shell escaping does not neutralize PowerShell metacharacters. The fix introduces a dedicated s:PSEscape() helper applied to every entry name, zip path and temp path, and reworks command dispatch (using string() and call system()) so entry names can no longer break out of their intended string context. CPE coverage is cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. the upstream Vim distribution itself rather than a third-party add-on.

RemediationAI

Upgrade Vim to 9.2.0678 or later, the vendor-released patch (https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0678), which applies the new s:PSEscape() PowerShell-aware quoting across all zip operations (commit b2cc9be119d51212bf0d3f2a99; advisory GHSA-x5fg-h5w9-9frf). If you cannot immediately upgrade on Windows hosts, a practical compensating control is to avoid opening, viewing or extracting untrusted .zip archives in Vim, since simply opening the archive is the trigger; another is to disable the bundled zip plugin (for example by preventing autoload/zip.vim from loading) so archives are no longer auto-browsed, with the trade-off of losing in-editor zip browsing. Where feasible, ensuring the GNU unzip/zip binaries are present and used keeps the PowerShell fallback branch from being exercised, though this is a configuration-dependent mitigation rather than a guaranteed fix. Patching to 9.2.0678 remains the only complete remediation.

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