CVE-2026-55892
MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.
Metadata
Severity & Metrics
5.5
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products (1)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| vim | vim | — | < 9.2.0662 |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-787 | cna | CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write |
CVSS scores (1)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | MEDIUM | 3.1 | cna | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (3)
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-qm9w-fmpj-879h https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-qm9w-fmpj-879h
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8325b193bba5f01e7a7d8241f https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8325b193bba5f01e7a7d8241f
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0662 https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0662