vim up to 9.2.0356 Command Line os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in vim up to 9.2.0356. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Command Line Handler. Such manipulation leads to os command injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-41411. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in vim up to 9.2.0356. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Command Line Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., `command`), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-41411 since 04/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 310517 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-41411), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 9.2.0357 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch c78194e41d5a0b05b0ddf383b6679b1503f977fb 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 vulnerability database at Tenable (310517). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Word Processing Software

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• vim

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• 9.2.0356

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• open-source

Website

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

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