CVE-2025-24014 — Out-of-bounds Write in VIM
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 20
Latest updateOct 9
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. A segmentation fault was found in Vim before 9.1.1043. In silent Ex mode (-s -e), Vim typically doesn't show a screen and just operates silently in batch mode. However, it is still possible to trigger the function that handles the scrolling of a gui version of Vim by feeding some binary characters to Vim. The function that handles the scrolling however may be triggering a redraw, which will access the ScreenLines pointer, even so this variable has…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 4.7