CVE-2026-73070

medium

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0842, the socket server backend in src/socketserver.c accepts unbounded client connections in socketserver_accept(), causing descriptors to overflow fd_set structures in src/channel.c and fixed-size struct pollfd arrays in src/os_unix.c, which allows a local process that can connect to the server socket to corrupt stack memory or terminate the Vim server. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0842.

References

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-49m8-wwxj-mr69

https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0842

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5598618b2daf8e36b3bf0251caaefcf0bf8e85e4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-11

Updated: 2026-08-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.2

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00111