CVE-2026-28422lowCWE-121

CVE-2026-28422: low-severity vulnerability in vim

Vim has stack-buffer-overflow in build_stl_str_hl()

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8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 2.2epss 0.2%
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0078, a stack-buffer-overflow occurs in `build_stl_str_hl()` when rendering a statusline with a multi-byte fill character on a very wide terminal. Version 9.2.0078 patches the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
vim · vim
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