CVE-2026-25749 PUBLISHED

Heap Overflow in Vim

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.02.2026 Published: 06.02.2026 Updated: 06.02.2026

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file resolution logic when processing the 'helpfile' option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in src/tag.c. When processing help file tags, Vim copies the user-controlled 'helpfile' option value into a fixed-size heap buffer of MAXPATHL + 1 bytes (typically 4097 bytes) using an unsafe STRCPY() operation without any bounds checking. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.2132.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.6

Product Status

Vendor vim
Product vim
Versions
  • Version < 9.1.2132 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE