CVE-2026-28421
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.01%Published: 2/27/2026Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2026-28421DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28421
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a swap file. Version 9.2.0077 fixes the issue.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/vimfrom 0, < 9.2.0078-r0
- Debian/vimfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |