CVE-2026-28419 PUBLISHED

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Underflow in Emacs tags parsing

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.02.2026 Published: 27.02.2026 Updated: 28.02.2026

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0075, a heap-based buffer underflow exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file where a delimiter appears at the start of a line, Vim attempts to read memory immediately preceding the allocated buffer. Version 9.2.0075 fixes the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor vim
Product vim
Versions
  • Version < 9.2.0075 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-124: Buffer Underwrite ('Buffer Underflow') CWE
  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE