CVE-2023-48231: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vim is an open source command line text editor. When closing a window, vim may try to access already freed window structure. Exploitation beyond crashing the application has not been shown to be viable. This issue has been addressed in commit `25aabc2b` which has been included in release version 9.0.2106. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Vim Vim: before 9.0.2106 (fixed in 9.0.2106)

Published 2023-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-23.