CVE-2026-57451CWE-125

Vim: Out-of-bounds Read in Text Property Count

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0670, get_text_props() in src/textprop.c reads a uint16 property count stored inline after a line's text and returns it as the number of 32-byte textprop_T entries that follow. The only check is a floor that guarantees room for a single entry; the count is never checked against the amount of data actually present. A line that declares a large count while carrying little data causes consumers to read far past the end of the line buffer. Such a line can be delivered through a crafted undo file, leading to a crash. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0670.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00161 · 4.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-06-25T15:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 15:28Z
    Vim: Out-of-bounds Read in Text Property Count
    cvelistv5