CVE-2026-43961
Fixed in a distro release EPSS <1%CVSS 7.8
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.
Products: vim, Red Hat Hardened Images, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine 3.23 | vim | 9.2.0481-r0 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-common | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-data | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-default-editor | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-enhanced | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-filesystem | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | vim-minimal | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | xxd | 2:9.2.597-1.amzn2023.0.1 |
| Debian 12 | vim | no fix |
| Debian 13 | vim | no fix |
| Debian 14 | vim | 2:9.2.0524-1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-X11 | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-common | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-data | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-default-editor | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-enhanced | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-filesystem | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | vim-minimal | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| Red Hat hummingbird 1 | xxd | 0:9.2.967-1.1.hum1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | vim | 9.2.0530-150000.5.94.1 |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 | vim | 9.2.0530-160000.1.1 |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | vim | 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.31 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | vim | 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.15 |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | vim | 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.6 |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | vim | 2:9.1.2141-1ubuntu4.3 |
| Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS | vim | 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm28 |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | vim | 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm34 |
| Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS | vim | 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm19 |
| Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS | vim | 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm7 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | vim | 9.2.0530-1.1 |