High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 3, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-27423
CVE-2025-27423
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Vim is distributed with the tar.vim plugin, that allows easy editing and viewing of (compressed or uncompressed) tar files. Starting with 9.1.0858, the tar.vim plugin uses the ":read" ex command line to append below the cursor position, however the is not sanitized and is taken literally from the tar archive. This allows to execute shell commands via special crafted tar archives. Whether this really happens, depends on the shell being used ('shell' option, which is set using $SHELL). The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1164
AI Insight
LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.
Affected products
12- cpe:2.3:h:netapp:hci_compute_node:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: >=9.1.0858, <9.1.1164
- osv-coords7 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm20?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trustypkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm26?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm11?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.31?arch=source&distro=focalpkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.23?arch=source&distro=jammypkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.6?arch=source&distro=noblepkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:9.1.0496-1ubuntu6.4?arch=source&distro=oracular
>= 0+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.