[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Multiple vulnerabilities

mediumCVE-2026-57454 CVE-2026-57456

An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in vim to conduct a denial of service attack, disclose information, and execute arbitrary code.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: vim product: vim Denial of service Information disclosure Remote code execution

What: Multiple vulnerabilities in vim can be exploited to conduct a denial of service attack, disclose information, and execute arbitrary code.
Who is affected: Deployments of vim are affected by these vulnerabilities.
Urgency: Remediation is medium urgency due to the potential for denial of service and arbitrary code execution.
Action: Users should update to the latest version of vim to mitigate these vulnerabilities.

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Details

Source: CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)
Severity: medium
Published: 2026-08-19
Exploitation: Not in CISA KEV at last sync
Language: Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2088

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-574540.12% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 2% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-574560.14% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 4% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

CVE	CSIRTS overview	External
CVE-2026-57454	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org
CVE-2026-57456	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org

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