{"schemaVersion":3,"id":"USN-8500-1","aliases":[],"status":"published","duplicateOf":null,"title":null,"description":"vim vulnerabilities\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled path traversal in the\nzip.vim plugin. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite\narbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04\nLTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2026-35177)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled depth tracking when\nprocessing spell files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause\na denial of service. (CVE-2026-55693, CVE-2026-55892)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled filename escaping in the\nnetrw plugin. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04\nLTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10,\nand Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-55895)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled length calculations when\nopening encrypted files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause\na denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-57452)\n\nDhruv Vishesh Gupta discovered that Vim incorrectly handled quoting of\narchive entry names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-57453)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled bounds checking when\ntranslating words through a byte map. An attacker could possibly use this\nissue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-57455)\n\nChenyuan Mi discovered that Vim incorrectly handled docstring escaping\nduring Python omni-completion. An attacker could possibly use this issue to\nexecute arbitrary code. 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