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CVE-2026-55892

23
FAUCET Score

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iteratively with a depth counter while dumping the prefixes that apply to a word. The counter is bounded only by the trie structure itself; it is never checked against the size of the fixed MAXWLEN-element stack arrays it indexes (prefix[], arridx[], curi[]). A crafted .spl file, loaded when the user dumps the word list, can drive the descent arbitrarily deep, so the function writes past the end of those arrays. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0662.

First published: Jun 25, 2026Last modified: Jun 25, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.2.0662CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
2.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0012 is in the 2nd percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 vim 9.2.0620-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 9.2.0735-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 21488-17084Fixed in: 9.2.0735-1
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (focal)Fixed in: 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm9
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (jammy)Fixed in: 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.33
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (noble)Fixed in: 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.17
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (questing)Fixed in: 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.8
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (resolute)Fixed in: 2:9.1.2141-1ubuntu4.6
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (trusty)Fixed in: 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm30
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (xenial)Fixed in: 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm36
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: vim (bionic)Fixed in: 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm21

Vendor Advisories (2)

ubuntuUSN-8500-1

Vim vulnerabilities

Jul 2, 2026
microsoft2026-Jun/CVE-2026-55892Moderate

Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump

Jun 9, 2026

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/8325b193bba5f01e7a7d8241f
Patch
github.com / vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0662
Product
github.com / vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-qm9w-fmpj-879h
Vendor Advisory