CVE-2023-48232
LowCVSS 3.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk47th percentile - higher than 47% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vim is an open source command line text editor. A floating point exception may occur when calculating the line offset for overlong lines and smooth scrolling is enabled with the cpo-settings including the 'n' flag. This issue leads to application crashes.
Risk Assessment
Organizations may experience crashes of the Vim editor, disrupting the work of users with non-default settings. The security impact is limited to application crashes.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.2107 to mitigate this vulnerability. Users should avoid non-default settings that may lead to this issue.
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- CVE-2016-1248High
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- CVE-2024-43802Medium
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- CVE-2024-47814Low
In Vim before 9.1.0764, a use-after-free occurs when closing a buffer and a BufWinLeave auto command reopens the same buffer in a new split window.
- CVE-2026-34714Critical
A vulnerability in Vim before version 9.2.0272 allows immediate code execution upon opening a crafted file in the default configuration. The issue is due to %{expr} injection in tabpanel lacking the P_MLE flag.
- CVE-2017-6350Critical
An integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site occurs for vim before patch 8.0.0378, if it does not properly validate values for tree length when reading a corrupted undo file, which may lead to resultant buffer overflows.
- CVE-2017-6349Critical
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- CVE-2017-5953Critical
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- CVE-2026-43961High
Vim's netrw plugin contains a vulnerability that allows arbitrary Vimscript execution via a crafted filename with quote characters and expression fragments. This can lead to shell command execution with the privileges of the user running Vim.
- CVE-2026-73073High
Vim prior to 9.2.0845 has a vulnerability in StructMembers() in runtime/autoload/ccomplete.vim, which constructs and executes a vimgrep command using an insufficiently escaped typeref: or typename: value from a tags file, allowing an unterminated collection followed by a command separator to execute arbitrary Ex and operating-system commands when a user invokes C omni-completion with CTRL-X CTRL-O on a member access whose type is resolved from that tags file. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0845.
Original NVD description (English source)
Vim is an open source command line text editor. A floating point exception may occur when calculating the line offset for overlong lines and smooth scrolling is enabled and the cpo-settings include the 'n' flag. This may happen when a window border is present and when the wrapped line continues on the next physical line directly in the window border because the 'cpo' setting includes the 'n' flag. Only users with non-default settings are affected and the exception should only result in a crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `cb0b99f0` which has been included in release version 9.0.2107. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
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