CVE-2026-44656: Vim

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0435, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's :find command-line completion. When the path option contains backtick-enclosed shell commands, those commands are executed during file name completion. Because the path option lacks the P_SECURE flag, it can be set from a modeline, allowing an attacker who controls the contents of a file to execute arbitrary shell commands when the user opens that file in Vim and triggers :find completion. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0435.

Affected products

• Vim Vim: before 9.2.0435 (fixed in 9.2.0435)

Published 2026-05-08. Last modified 2026-07-24.