CVE-2026-57452

Publication date 25 June 2026

Last updated 2 July 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0671, when Vim opens a file encrypted with the VimCrypt~04! or VimCrypt~05! method (xchacha20poly1305, requires the +sodium feature) whose body is shorter than a single libsodium secretstream header, an unsigned length calculation underflows and a subsequent decryption call reads far past the end of the input buffer, crashing Vim. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0671.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 2:9.1.2141-1ubuntu4.6
25.10 questing
Fixed 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.8
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.17
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.33
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

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

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