High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2026· Updated Sep 22, 2026
CVE-2026-43961
CVE-2026-43961
Description
A flaw was found in Vim's netrw plugin. A crafted filename containing quote characters and expression fragments can break out of the quoted context during mark/unmark operations, allowing arbitrary Vimscript execution. This can be leveraged to run shell commands with the privileges of the user running Vim.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords7 versionspkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1+ 6 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0530-1.1
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