CVE-2025-9389Improper 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

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDvim/vim9.1.0000
debiandebian/vim

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2025-9389: A vulnerability was identified in vim 92025-08-25
GHSA
GHSA-p222-mxxm-v36m: A vulnerability was identified in vim 92025-08-24

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
vim: vim memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms memory corruption2025-08-24
Debian
CVE-2025-9389: vim - A vulnerability was identified in vim 9.1.0000. Affected is the function __memmo...2025
CVE-2025-9389 — VIM vulnerability | cvebase