CVE-2026-26269 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow in VIM
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV6.6
EPSS
0.0%
top 87.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 13
Latest updateMar 16
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.1.2148, a stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's NetBeans integration when processing the specialKeys command, affecting Vim builds that enable and use the NetBeans feature. The Stack buffer overflow exists in special_keys() (in src/netbeans.c). The while (*tok) loop writes two bytes per iteration into a 64-byte stack buffer (keybuf) with no bounds check. A malicious NetBeans server can overflow keybuf with a single special…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.6 | Impact: 5.9