Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0698, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sofo() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SOFO (sound-folding) byte map into a caller-owned result buffer. Its copy loop advances the output index ri with no upper bound and terminates only on the input NUL, writing one byte per input byte into the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer the caller provides. A word longer than MAXWLEN, passed to soundfold() (or reached via sound-based spell suggestion) while a SOFO-based spell language is active, therefore writes past the end of that buffer. This is a stack out-of-bounds write that corrupts the call frame and crashes the editor. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0698.
CVE-2026-57455
This high-severity CVE scores 7.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 98% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
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- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 2.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 25, 2026
Last Modified
June 26, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 26, 2026Out-of-bounds Write in SOFO Soundfolding in Vim < 9.2.0698 · Advisory · vim/vim · GitHub
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-q8mh-6qm3-25g4commit 497f931f8533 (vim/vim)
Fix landed in vim/vim commit 497f931f8533 — awaiting tagged release
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/497f931f85339d175d7f69588dd249e8ccfed41bVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-57455(1)
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 / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | xxd (2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.8) @ questing | 2026-07-06 | ubuntu |
| redhat | vim-main-9.2.725-1.hum1 | 2026-06-26 | redhat |
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.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(2)
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 30× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 19:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 19:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 06:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 06:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-05 18:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 18:07 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-05 05:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 05:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-05 02:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 16:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 16:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-04 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 04:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-03 14:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 14:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-03 02:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 02:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-02 13:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 13:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-02 01:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 01:03 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-01 15:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-01 12:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-06-30 23:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 10:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 22:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-29 09:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 21:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 08:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-27 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 18:30 UTCEG score recompute▲ 3.80
- 2026-06-26 09:42 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-06-25 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-25 17:48 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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