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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2026-28418 json

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Emacs tags parsing

published 2026-02-27 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-9086

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0074, a heap-based buffer overflow out-of-bounds read exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file, Vim can be tricked into reading up to 7 bytes beyond the allocated memory boundary. Version 9.2.0074 fixes the issue.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim 9.2.0074
  • vim Debian 13 2:9.1.1230-2+deb13u1
  • vim Debian 14 2:9.2.0119-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28418

  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.26
  • vim Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.10
  • vim Ubuntu 25.10 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.1
  • vim Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 2:9.1.2141-1ubuntu2
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm23
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm29
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm14
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28418

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +4 more 9.2.0110-150000.5.86.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES 15 SP6-LTSS +7 more 9.2.0110-150500.20.43.1
  • vim SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 9.2.0110-17.59.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:1051-1SUSE-SU-2026:1095-1SUSE-SU-2026:0910-1

  • vim Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 9.2.0078-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-28418

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 Azure Linux 3.0 9.2.0088-1

azure linux advisories AZL-78506

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-2026-28418 updated cvss 5.3

vim: Vim: Information disclosure via heap-based buffer overflow in Emacs-style tags file parsing

  • 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
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% 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 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • vim vim

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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