Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-3954a4ed07 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2026-39881

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 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 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-755c51e6a0 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2026-39881

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 version of Vim installed on the remote host is prior to 9.2.0316. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the GHSA-mr87-rhgv-7pw6 advisory.

  - A command injection vulnerability in Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to     execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType     and specialKeys protocol messages. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316. (CVE-2026-39881)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 9.2.0316, a command injection vulnerability in     Vim's netbeans interface allows a malicious netbeans server to execute arbitrary Ex commands when Vim     connects to it, via unsanitized strings in the defineAnnoType and specialKeys protocol messages. This     vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0316. (CVE-2026-39881)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
310865	Fedora 44 : vim (2026-3954a4ed07)	Nessus	Fedora 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
310582	Fedora 43 : vim (2026-755c51e6a0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
306509	Vim < 9.2.0316 Command Injection (GHSA-mr87-rhgv-7pw6)	Nessus	Misc.	high
305618	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-39881	Nessus	Misc.	high

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