CVE-2025-9389 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in VIM
Severity
4.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 89.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 24
Latest updateAug 25
Description
A vulnerability was identified in vim 9.1.0000. Affected is the function __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms of the file memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Some users are not able to reproduce this. One of the users mentions that this appears not to be working, "when coloring is turned on".
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N