CVE-2025-27423

highpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.225 · 98 %ileDEEURUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
22.5% (98th) EPSS
CVSS 7.1 · high
Is it mine?
80 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Vim is distributed with the tar.vim plugin, that allows easy editing and viewing of (compressed or uncompressed) tar files. Starting with 9.1.0858, the tar.vim plugin uses the ":read" ex command line to append below the cursor position, however the is not sanitized and is taken literally from the tar archive. This allows to execute shell commands via special crafted tar archives. Whether this really happens, depends on the shell being used ('shell' option, which is set using $SHELL). The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1164

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.1
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.1

v3.17.1highAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.2
v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USCWE-77USCWE-77US
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affected products (80)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

showing 20 of 80
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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2025-0470vim (tar.vim plugin): Schwachstelle ermöglicht CodeausführungDeutsch2025-03-02csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in vim ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.

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also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bducert_bundNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2025-03-03modified 2026-06-17
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references (14)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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