vim up to 9.2.0201 glob os command injection

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A vulnerability has been found in vim up to 9.2.0201 and classified as critical. Impacted is the function glob. Performing a manipulation results in os command injection. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-33412. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in vim up to 9.2.0201. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function glob. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0202, a command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's glob() function on Unix-like systems. By including a newline character (\n) in a pattern passed to glob(), an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary shell commands. This vulnerability depends on the user's 'shell' setting. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0202.

The advisory is shared at seclists.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-33412. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 303177 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-33412), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 9.2.0202 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (303177) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-0798). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Open Source vim

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• Word Processing Software

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• vim

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• 9.2.0201

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/vim/vim/

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