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CVE-2026-46483

LOW CVSS: 3.6 Published: 2026-05-15 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0479, a command injection vulnerability exists in tar#Vimuntar() in runtime/autoload/tar.vim when decompressing .tgz archives on Unix-like systems. The function builds :!gunzip and :!gzip -d commands using shellescape(tartail) without the {special} flag, allowing a crafted archive filename to trigger Vim cmdline-special expansion and execute shell commands in the user's context. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0479.

Affected Platforms

Vim Vim

Weakness Type

CWE-78, CWE-88

References