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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2025-29768 json

Vim vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files

published 2025-03-13 19 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-6366

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vim, a text editor, is vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files in versions prior to 9.1.1198. The impact is medium because a user must be made to view such an archive with Vim and then press 'x' on such a strange filename. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1198.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim 9.1.1198
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13 2:9.1.1230-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29768

  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS +11 more 9.1.1406-150000.5.75.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 +7 more 9.1.1406-150500.20.27.1
  • vim SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 9.1.1406-17.48.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02228-1SUSE-SU-2025:02227-1SUSE-SU-2025:02226-1

  • vim Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 9.1.1202-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-29768

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vim CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 9.1.1198-1

azure linux advisories AZL-58616AZL-58632

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-2025-29768 updated cvss 4.4

vim: Vim vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files

  • 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 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 vim Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    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
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • vim vim

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command

References

Sources

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