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CVE-2026-57453

Vim: PowerShell Command Injection via Unescaped Filename in zip.vim Extraction

Published: 6/25/2026 Last updated: 6/26/2026 Reserved: 6/24/2026

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.1784 until 9.2.0678, when the bundled zip plugin autoload/zip.vim falls back to PowerShell to browse, read, extract, update or delete entries in a zip archive, it builds the PowerShell command by inserting archive entry names that are quoted only for the shell, not for PowerShell. A crafted entry name can break out of the intended string context and cause PowerShell to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running Vim, triggered by opening, viewing or extracting the archive. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0678.

CNA assigner: GitHub_M (a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 6.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-vim

Products affected (2)

Product Vendor Version
vim vim All versions < V11.1.1.0
vim vim 16.0

References (6)