[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Multiple vulnerabilities
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in vim to conduct a denial of service attack, disclose information, and execute arbitrary code.
CSIRTS triage
- 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
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 |
Same CVEs, other sources
How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.
Recent advisories for vim
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] vim (NetBeans): Vulnerability enables code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
- low[UPDATE] [low] vim: Vulnerability enables code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
- low[UPDATE] [low] vim: Vulnerability enables code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Vulnerability allows code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Vulnerability enables code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
- high[UPDATE] [high] vim: Vulnerability allows code executioncert-bund · 2026-09-04
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