USN-8171-1: vim Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 13-04-2026Last modified 30-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

USN-8171-1 is a vulnerability in vim Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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0%100%
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 3
CVE-2026-32249CVE-2026-33412CVE-2026-34982

Timeline

  1. 13-04-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

vim vulnerabilities Nathan Mills discovered that Vim could crash when parsing certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10 (CVE-2026-32249) It was discovered that Vim did not properly sanitize user input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2026-33412) Avishay Matayev discovered that Vim's modeline sandbox could be bypassed when opening a maliciously-crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-34982)

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Public exploits

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Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • vim< 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm24 | < 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm30 | < 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm15 | < 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm3 | < 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.27 | < 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.11 | < 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.2

1 vendor · 1 product

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