CVE-2026-59857CWE-787

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding

Medium · published July 9, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0725, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sal() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SAL sound-folding rules into a caller-owned result buffer, but its result writes are guarded with reslen < MAXWLEN, allowing reslen to reach MAXWLEN before res[reslen] = NUL writes one byte past the end of the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer. A boundary-length word passed to soundfold(), or reached via sound-based spell suggestion while a SAL-based spell language is active under a non-multibyte 8-bit encoding, can corrupt the eval_soundfold() stack frame and crash the editor. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0725.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00110 · 1.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2026-07-09T22:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUL 22:34Z
    Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding
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