CVE-2026-55892

EUVD-2026-39451
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0662, the dump_prefixes() function in src/spell.c walks a spell-file prefix trie iteratively with a depth counter while dumping the prefixes that apply to a word. The counter is bounded only by the trie structure itself; it is never checked against the size of the fixed MAXWLEN-element stack arrays it indexes (prefix[], arridx[], curi[]). A crafted .spl file, loaded when the user dumps the word list, can drive the descent arbitrarily deep, so the function writes past the end of those arrays. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0662.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
GitHub_MCNA
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
vimvim
𝑥
< 9.2.662
CNA
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vim
bookworm
vulnerable
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable