CVE-2026-32249CWE-476

NFA regex engine NULL pointer dereference affects Vim < 9.2.0137

Medium · published March 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.0011 to before 9.2.0137, Vim's NFA regex compiler, when encountering a collection containing a combining character as the endpoint of a character range (e.g. [0-0\u05bb]), incorrectly emits the composing bytes of that character as separate NFA states. This corrupts the NFA postfix stack, resulting in NFA_START_COLL having a NULL out1 pointer. When nfa_max_width() subsequently traverses the compiled NFA to estimate match width for the look-behind assertion, it dereferences state->out1->out without a NULL check, causing a segmentation fault. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0137.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00193 · 8.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-03-12T19:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAR 19:17Z
    NFA regex engine NULL pointer dereference affects Vim < 9.2.0137
    cvelistv5