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CVE-2026-51401

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-04 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

An issue in Vim Project v9.2.0389 and earlier allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the vms_fixfilename() function within file vim/src/os_vms.c

Affected products

• vim/vim: through 9.2.0389

References

• https://gist.github.com/jiejiaodedengdai/ff5d34a523167e09b7d8330cc9f5d4e5#file-vim-os_vms-cves-md
• https://github.com/vim/vim
• https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/src/os_vms.c

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