Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0280, a path traversal bypass in Vim's zip.vim plugin allows overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives, circumventing the previous fix for CVE-2025-53906. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0280.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8246-1 advisory.

    Micha Majchrowicz discovered that Vims zip plugin could overwrite arbitrary files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to delete sensitive data or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-35177)

    It was discovered that Vims netbeans interface did not properly sanitize certain strings. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2026-39881)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly handle backticks in tag filenames. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2026-41411)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the vim package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8213-1 advisory.

    Micha Majchrowicz discovered that Vim's zip plugin could overwrite arbitrary files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to delete sensitive data or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-35177)

    It was discovered that Vim's netbeans interface did not properly sanitize certain strings. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2026-39881)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-251d74645b advisory.

    patchlevel 280

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    Security fix for CVE-2026-34714, CVE-2026-35177, CVE-2026-34982


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-c718defeb6 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2026-34714, CVE-2026-35177, CVE-2026-34982



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0280, a path traversal bypass in Vim's     zip.vim plugin allows overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives,     circumventing the previous fix for CVE-2025-53906. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0280.
    (CVE-2026-35177)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
314213	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-8246-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
313509	Photon OS 4.0: Vim PHSA-2026-4.0-1012	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
310787	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-8213-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
310706	Photon OS 5.0: Vim PHSA-2026-5.0-0830	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
310691	Fedora 44 : vim (2026-251d74645b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
306076	Fedora 42 : vim (2026-c718defeb6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
305104	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-35177	Nessus	Misc.	high

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