CVE-2026-35177: 
Vim vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0280, a path traversal bypass in Vim's zip.vim plugin allows overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives, circumventing the previous fix for CVE-2025-53906. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0280.

Linux Distribution fix status

Fix availability across major Linux distributions and their releases.

Debian

Fixed

bookworm

vim

Affected

sid

vim: 2:9.2.0315-1

Fixed

trixie

vim

Affected

RHEL / CentOS

Fixed

OpenShift

el8:openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8-0:412.86.202608241157-0

Fixed

RHEL 8

:appstream:vim-2:8.0.1763-23.el8_10.src

Fixed

RHEL 9

:appstream:vim-2:8.2.2637-20.el9_2.2.src

Fixed

RHEL 10

vim-2:9.1.083-5.el10_0.3.src

Fixed

Alpine

Fixed

edge

vim: 9.2.0280-r0

Fixed

v3.23

vim: 9.2.0280-r0

Fixed

Source: NVD

Related Vim vulnerabilities:

CVE ID

Severity

Score

Technologies

Component name

CISA KEV exploit

Has fix

Published date

CVE-2026-73078HIGH8.6
  • Vim logoVim
  • vim-X11
NoYesAug 11, 2026
CVE-2026-73077HIGH8.4
  • Vim logoVim
  • vim-enhanced-debuginfo
NoYesAug 11, 2026
CVE-2026-43961HIGH7.8
  • Vim logoVim
  • vim-debugsource
NoYesAug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-73073HIGH7.1
  • Vim logoVim
  • vim-common-debuginfo
NoYesAug 18, 2026
CVE-2026-19617MEDIUM5.5
  • Vim logoVim
  • lvm2-libs
NoYesAug 14, 2026

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