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ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961
A flaw was found in Vim's netrw plugin. A crafted filename containing quote characters and expression fragments can break out of the quoted context during mark/unmark operations, allowing arbitrary Vimscript execution. This can be leveraged to run shell commands with the privileges of the user running Vim.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961
vim
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 9.2.0481-r0
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "9.2.0481-r0"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "vim",
"purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/vim?arch=source",
"ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.23"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #54415 · Revision 1
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