CVE-2026-35177

Publication date 6 April 2026

Last updated 2 July 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0280, a path traversal bypass in Vim's zip.vim plugin allows overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives, circumventing the previous fix for CVE-2025-53906. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0280.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 2:9.1.2141-1ubuntu4.1
25.10 questing
Fixed 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.3
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.12
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.33
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm9
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm21
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm36
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm30

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.1 · Medium

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

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