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low 3.9

CVE-2023-48232 json

Floating point Exception in adjust_plines_for_skipcol() in vim

published 2023-11-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-23 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-52304

cvss
3.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vim is an open source command line text editor. A floating point exception may occur when calculating the line offset for overlong lines and smooth scrolling is enabled and the cpo-settings include the 'n' flag. This may happen when a window border is present and when the wrapped line continues on the next physical line directly in the window border because the 'cpo' setting includes the 'n' flag. Only users with non-default settings are affected and the exception should only result in a crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `cb0b99f0` which has been included in release version 9.0.2107. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim 9.0.2107
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13 2:9.0.2116-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-48232

  • vim SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, SLE Micro 5.5 +1 more 9.1.0111-150500.20.9.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2 +16 more 9.1.0111-150000.5.60.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 9.1.0111-17.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1287-1SUSE-SU-2024:0871-1SUSE-SU-2024:0783-1

  • vim CBL-Mariner 2.0 9.0.2112-1

azure linux advisories AZL-32009

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-48232 updated cvss 4.3

vim: floating point exception in adjust_plines_for_skipcol()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected products

  • vim vim

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

References

Sources

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