CVE-2025-55158 — Double Free in VIM
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 84.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 11
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. In versions from 9.1.1231 to before 9.1.1406, when processing nested tuples during Vim9 script import operations, an error during evaluation can trigger a double-free in Vim’s internal typed value (typval_T) management. Specifically, the clear_tv() function may attempt to free memory that has already been deallocated, due to improper lifetime handling in the handle_import / ex_import code paths. The vulnerability can only be triggered if a user ex…
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N