[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Vulnerability allows Denial of Service

mediumCVE-2026-59857

An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in vim to carry out a denial of service attack.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: vim product: vim Denial of service

What: An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in vim to carry out a denial of service attack.
Who is affected: All users of vim are affected.
Urgency: Remediation is medium urgency due to the potential for denial of service.
Action: Update to the latest version of vim.

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Details

Source: CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)
Severity: medium
Published: 2026-08-04
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-2026-2059

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-2026-598570.11% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 1% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

CVE	CSIRTS overview	External
CVE-2026-59857	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org

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