CVE-2025-9389

low

Description

A vulnerability was identified in vim 9.1.0000. Affected is the function __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms of the file memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Some users are not able to reproduce this. One of the users mentions that this appears not to be working, "when coloring is turned on".

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.630898

https://vuldb.com/?id.321222

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.321222

https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/17940#issuecomment-3203415781

https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/17940

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iFbTpW79vqBPkFjWYzGYIh_E6esPhYVY/view?usp=sharing

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-24

Updated: 2025-08-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015