{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-73072 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2026-73072 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Vim Vim, published on 11 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-73072 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-73072 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Vim Vim, published on 11 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-73072 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vim Vim. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73072/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73072/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-73072","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73072/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-73072","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2026-73072","AZL-95556","BELL-CVE-2026-73072","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73072","ECHO-32bd-c066-628a","GHSA-9jqx-hgpr-6v64","MINI-g9ww-hr98-xmhw","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-73072","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-73072","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73072"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Vim text editor","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A heap buffer overflow in Vim allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spell file, requiring users to update to the latest version.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"vim","vendor":"vim"}],"cvss":{"score":8.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"},{"id":"CWE-122","name":"Heap-based Buffer Overflow"}],"description":"Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0846, set_sofo() in src/spellfile.c reuses sl_sal_first[] without resetting values left by set_sal_first(), so a crafted spell file containing an SN_SAL section before an SN_SOFO section causes under-counted mapping lists and attacker-influenced writes beyond a heap allocation. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0846.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2026-08-19","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2026-08-19T07:45:15Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/HORKimhab/CVE-2026-73072","stars":0,"title":"CVE-2026-73072 - Draft or TODO"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Vim: Heap Buffer Overflow when Loading a Spell File","id":"CVE-2026-73072","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vim:vim","products":["vim:vim"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Vim: Arbitrary Ex Command Execution in C Omni-Completion","id":"CVE-2026-73073"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Vim: Use-after-free in JSON Decoding","id":"CVE-2026-73071"},"products":["vim"],"published":"2026-08-11","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-20703","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-06-20"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-6349","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-02-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-6350","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-02-27"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5953","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-02-10"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-3075","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-02-21"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-3076","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-02-21"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-6235","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2009-02-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-09-17","vendors":["vim"]},"summary":"A heap buffer overflow in Vim allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spell file, requiring users to update to the latest version.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-73072/"}