CVE-2026-59857
An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in vim to carry out a denial of service attack.
CSIRTS triage
- 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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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.13% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 3% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- medium[UPDATE] [medium] vim: Vulnerability allows Denial of Servicecert-bund · 2026-07-10
- mediumCVE-2026-59857: Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0725, the single-byte branch of …nvd · 2026-07-09
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