CVE-2026-25749CWE-122

Heap Overflow in Vim

Medium · published February 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00222 · 12.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-02-06T22:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 FEB 22:43Z
    Heap Overflow in Vim
    cvelistv5