CVE-2026-55693CWE-787

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0653, the tree_count_words() function in src/spellfile.c fills in the word-count fields of a spell-file word trie by walking it iteratively with a depth counter. The counter is bounded only by the trie structure itself; it is never checked against the size of the fixed MAXWLEN-element stack arrays it indexes (arridx[], curi[], wordcount[]). A crafted .spl/.sug file pair, loaded when the user invokes spell suggestion, can drive the descent arbitrarily deep, so the function writes past the end of those arrays. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0653.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00124 · 2.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-06-25T15:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 15:34Z
    Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count
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