CVE-2026-41411

MEDIUM6.6

Vim: Command injection via backtick expansion in tag filenames

Published Apr 24, 2026

Modified 3 weeks ago

Details

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

References

WEB

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c78194e41d5a0b05b0ddf383b6679b1503f977fb

WEB

https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0357

WEB

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-cwgx-gcj7-6qh8

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41411

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

6.6