Vim vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.
Vim has 212 published vulnerabilities across 5 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Vim, with 210. If you run Vim software, patch the exploited flaws first.
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Which Vim products have the most vulnerabilities?
Vim leads with 210 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.
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None of Vim's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Vim flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 26%CVE-2022-0572High
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.
- 25%CVE-2016-1248High
vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap' options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline is opened.
- 22%CVE-2025-27423High
Vim is an open source, command line text editor.
- 19%CVE-2019-12735High
getchar.c in Vim before 8.1.1365 and Neovim before 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the :source!
- 15%CVE-2008-2712Critical
Vim 7.1.314, 6.4, and other versions allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via Vim scripts that do not properly sanitize inputs before invoking the execute or system functions, as...
- 13%CVE-2022-0714Medium
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4436.
- 9.2%CVE-2008-4101Critical
Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to (1) execute arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that contains a ";" (semicolon)...
- 9.1%CVE-2010-3914Critical
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VIM Development Group GVim before 7.3.034, and possibly other versions before 7.3.46, allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct...
- 9.0%CVE-2008-3076Critical
The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the execute and system functions within the (1) mz and (2) mc...
- 8.6%CVE-2008-3432Medium
Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames, as demonstrated by the...
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Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.
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Our catalogue lists 212 published vulnerabilities across 5 products and 15,081 versions from Vim.
None of Vim's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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