CVE-2026-44656

MEDIUMNVD 5.35.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.8% (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
5.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 5.3Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0435, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's :find command-line completion. When the path option contains backtick-enclosed shell commands, those commands are executed during file name completion. Because the path option lacks the P_SECURE flag, it can be set from a modeline, allowing an attacker who controls the contents of a file to execute arbitrary shell commands when the user opens that file in Vim and triggers :find completion. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0435.

CVSS v3
5.3
EG Score
5.3MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
24
EG Risk 24/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity53% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.8% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
56th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

May 8, 2026

Last Modified

July 24, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 16, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

OS Command Injection via 'path' completion affects Vim < 9.2.0435 · Advisory · vim/vim · GitHub

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-hwg5-3cxw-wvvg
GitHub commit

commit 190cb3c2b9c7 (vim/vim)

Fix landed in vim/vim commit 190cb3c2b9c7 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/190cb3c2b9c769a3972bcfd991a7b5b6cb771ef0

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-44656(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuxxd (2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.14) @ noble2026-08-23ubuntu
redhatvim-main-9.2.967-1.1.hum12026-08-20redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
vim—
  • every version up to 9.2.0437-r0: fixed in 9.2.0437-r0
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
vim2:8.2.2434-3 ... 2:9.2.0858-1 (63 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
vim2:9.0.1378-2 ... 2:9.2.0858-1 (45 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
vim2:9.1.1230-2 ... 2:9.2.0858-1 (19 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
vim2:9.1.1230-2 ... 2:9.2.0428-1 (15 versions)
  • every version up to 2:9.2.0461-1: fixed in 2:9.2.0461-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 32× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 215 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 115 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
  2. 2026-10-22 23:44 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-22 23:44 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 56th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-18 03:39 UTCEG score recompute
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  15. 2026-10-12 16:05 UTCEG score recompute
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  19. 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 55th percentile
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  5. 2026-09-30 06:58 UTCOSV refresh
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  8. 2026-09-23 17:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 58th percentile
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  32. 2026-08-23 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-08-23 18:51 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  41. 2026-08-17 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  44. 2026-08-16 04:32 UTCVendor advisory
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  48. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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  50. 2026-08-14 03:06 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
  52. 2026-08-12 22:28 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-08-12 22:28 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
  55. 2026-08-11 23:51 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-08-11 23:51 UTCVendor advisory
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  59. 2026-08-11 00:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
  60. 2026-08-10 00:59 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-08-10 00:59 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
  63. 2026-08-09 02:22 UTCEG score recompute
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  65. 2026-08-08 16:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
  66. 2026-08-07 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
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  72. 2026-08-05 22:06 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-44656?
CVE-2026-44656 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 8, 2026. Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0435, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's :find command-line completion. When the path option contains backtick-enclosed shell commands, those commands are executed during file name completion. Because the path…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-44656 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-44656 was published on May 8, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-44656 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-44656 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (56th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-44656?
CVE-2026-44656 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-44656?
A fix for CVE-2026-44656 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-44656 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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