CVE-2026-57455
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in vim to execute arbitrary code and conduct a denial of service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in vim can be exploited to execute arbitrary code and conduct a denial of service attack.
- 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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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.12% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 2% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-03
- highCVE-2026-57455: Vim: Stack out-of-bounds write in `spell_soundfold_sofo()` via an over-length `soundfold()` ar…msrc · 2026-06-09
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