CVE-2026-55892CWE-787

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iteratively with a depth counter while dumping the prefixes that apply to a word. 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 (prefix[], arridx[], curi[]). A crafted .spl file, loaded when the user dumps the word list, 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 9.2.0662.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00120 · 1.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-06-25T15:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 15:32Z
    Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump
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