High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 11, 2026· Updated Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-73078
CVE-2026-73078
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0840, runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim loads netrw and runtime/pack/dist/opt/netrw/autoload/netrw.vim constructs Bookmarks, History, and Targets menu entries by interpolating attacker-controlled directory paths into executed :menu commands. s:NetrwBookmarkMenu(), s:NetrwTgtMenu(), g:netrw_menu_escape, EX_TRLBAR, and netrw#MakeTgt() fail to neutralize the | command separator or single quotes at five construction sites, allowing a crafted path browsed or bookmarked in GUI Vim to execute arbitrary Ex and operating-system commands. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0840.
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Affected products
10- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-X11pkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-commonpkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-datapkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-enhancedpkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-filesystempkg:rpm/almalinux/vim-minimalpkg:rpm/almalinux/xxdpkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
< 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- (no CPE)range: < 9.2.0957-160000.1.1
Patches
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References
2- github.com/vim/vim/commit/29c6fd090d4520592f8be7d9ec81190edf25ef69nvdPatch
- github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-rcr7-f3wr-22r2nvdPatchVendor Advisory
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