CVE-2026-41411

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.(CVE-2026-41411)

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.(CVE-2026-41411)

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.(CVE-2026-41411)

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.(CVE-2026-41411)

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.(CVE-2026-41411)

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., command), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

• CVE-2026-41411: prevent OS command injection in tag-file backtick expansion

• CVE-2026-41411: prevent OS command injection in tag-file backtick expansion

• CVE-2026-41411: fix OS command injection in tag file processing by disallowing backticks in the filename field before wildcard expansion (upstream 9.2.0357)

• CVE-2026-41411: fix OS command injection in tag file processing by disallowing backticks in the filename field before wildcard expansion (upstream patch 9.2.0357)

• CVE-2026-41411: fix command injection via backticks in tag file filenames by disallowing backtick expansion in expand_tag_fname() (src/tag.c, upstream patch 9.2.0357)

• CVE-2026-41411: fix command injection via backticks in tag file filenames by disallowing backtick expansion in expand_tag_fname() (src/tag.c, upstream patch 9.2.0357)

• CVE-2026-41411: fix command injection via backticks in tag file filenames by disallowing backtick expansion in expand_tag_fname() (src/tag.c, upstream patch 9.2.0357)

• SECURITY UPDATE: command injection via backticks in tag files
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-41411.patch: disallow backticks in tag filenames before attempting wildcard expansion in expand_tag_fname() (src/tag.c), preventing arbitrary shell command execution via a malicious tags file; matches upstream patch 9.2.0357
  • CVE-2026-41411

• CVE-2026-41411: fix OS command injection in tag file processing by disallowing backticks in the filename field before wildcard expansion (upstream 9.2.0357)

• SECURITY UPDATE: Heap buffer overflow in get_tagfname() in src/tag.c: the user-settable 'helpfile' option value is copied into a fixed MAXPATHL+1-sized heap buffer with an unbounded STRCPY() when help-file tags are resolved, so a 'helpfile' path longer than MAXPATHL writes past the end of the buffer
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-25749.patch: replace the unbounded STRCPY(buf, p_hf) in get_tagfname() with a bounded vim_strncpy() that also leaves room for the "tags" tail appended by the following STRCPY(gettail(buf), "tags"), so the 'helpfile' value can no longer be copied past the end of the caller's MAXPATHL-sized buffer
  • CVE-2026-25749
• SECURITY UPDATE: Modeline sandbox bypass allowing arbitrary OS command execution when a crafted file is opened: the 'complete', 'guitabtooltip' and 'printheader' options are missing the P_MLE flag, so a modeline can set them to expressions that are evaluated outside the 'modelineexpr' guard
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-34982.patch: add the P_MLE flag to the 'complete', 'guitabtooltip' and 'printheader' entries of the option table in src/option.c so a modeline can no longer set them while 'modelineexpr' is off; the upstream mapset() hunk is dropped as mapset() does not exist in 8.1.0875
  • CVE-2026-34982
• SECURITY UPDATE: Command injection during tag resolution in expand_tag_fname() in src/tag.c: the filename field read from a tags file is passed to ExpandOne() for wildcard and environment-variable expansion, so a crafted tags file containing backtick syntax makes vim execute the embedded command through the shell with the user's privileges
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-41411.patch: guard the wildcard expansion in expand_tag_fname() with vim_strchr(fname, '`') == NULL so a tags-file filename field containing backticks is never handed to ExpandOne() and can no longer reach the shell
  • CVE-2026-41411

• SECURITY UPDATE: stack-based buffer overflow in option callback functions: illegal_char() and did_set_string_option() wrote the E539/E526/E535 option errors into the caller's 80-byte errbuf[] with unbounded sprintf(). The call site reported upstream, did_set_langmap() in src/map.c, does not exist in this version, where 'langmap' errors are reported through EMSG2() into a bounded buffer.
  • debian/patches/CVE-2024-22667.patch: introduce ERR_BUFLEN and use snprintf() bounded by it at the three sprintf() sites, in src/option.c and src/option.h; matches upstream patch 9.0.2142.
  • CVE-2024-22667
• SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overflow in 'helpfile' option handling: get_tagfname() copied the user-controlled 'helpfile' value into a MAXPATHL buffer with STRCPY() and then appended "tags" at the tail, so an over-long 'helpfile' overflowed the buffer.
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-25749.patch: bound the copy with vim_strncpy() leaving room for the "tags" suffix, in src/tag.c; matches upstream patches 9.1.2132 and 9.1.2133.
  • CVE-2026-25749
• SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overflow in the netbeans specialKeys command: special_keys() walked the modifier prefix writing two bytes per modifier into the 64-byte keybuf[] with no bound, so a long modifier run overflowed it.
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-26269.patch: stop the modifier loop while i + 2 < KEYBUFLEN, in src/netbeans.c; matches upstream patch 9.1.2148.
  • CVE-2026-26269
• SECURITY UPDATE: command injection via netrw URIs: the hostname and port taken from a netrw URI were interpolated unescaped into the command passed to system(), so shell metacharacters in the host or port ran arbitrary commands.
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-28417.patch: validate the host against an RFC1123 hostname / IPv4 / IPv6 pattern at the four netrw entry points and shellescape() the host, user and port in s:MakeSshCmd(), in runtime/autoload/netrw.vim; matches upstream patches 9.2.0073, 9.2.0089 and 9.2.0553.
  • CVE-2026-28417
• SECURITY UPDATE: crash and huge allocation recovering a corrupted swap file: ml_recover() trusted pe_page_count, pe_bnum, pe_old_lnum and pe_line_count from the swap file, so bogus values caused a multi-GB mf_get() allocation or a SEGV inside readfile().
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-28421.patch: bound pe_page_count and pe_bnum against mf_blocknr_max and validate pe_old_lnum and pe_line_count before use, in src/memline.c; matches upstream patch 9.2.0077.
  • CVE-2026-28421
• SECURITY UPDATE: command injection via newline in glob(): the newline character was missing from SHELL_SPECIAL, so it was not escaped before mch_expand_wildcards() handed the pattern to the shell and could act as a command separator.
  • debian/patches/CVE-2026-33412.patch: add '\n' to SHELL_SPECIAL, in src/os_unix.c; matches upstream patch 9.2.0202.
  • CVE-2026-33412
• SECURITY UPDATE: modeline security bypass: several options holding expressions could be set from a modeline, so opening a crafted file evaluated attacker-supplied expressions. In this version the expressions reachable this way are the 'statusline'-style %{} items of 'printheader' and 'guitabtooltip', which were evaluated in the sandbox only; the F{func} flag of 'complete' and the mapset() function named by the upstream advisory arrived in later releases and are not present in this version.
  • debian/patches/patch-8.1.1366-using-expressions-in-a-modeline-is-unsafe.patch: add the 'modelineexpr' option and the P_MLE flag, refuse P_MLE options in a modeline unless 'modelineexpr' is set, mark the expression-bearing options P_MLE, and document 'modelineexpr' and E992, in src/option.c, src/option.h and runtime/doc/options.txt; prerequisite…

Ex command injection in Vims NetBeans integration. (CVE-2026-39881) Command injection via backtick expansion in tag filenames in Vim < v9.2.0357. (CVE-2026-41411) OS Command Injection in netrw affects Vim < 9.2.0383. (CVE-2026-42307) OS Command Injection via 'path' completion affects Vim < 9.2.0435.

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