Medium severity · published Jun 25, 2026
CVE-2026-55892
Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Prefix Dump
5.5
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VI
vim · vim
< 9.2.0662 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55892
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-55892
Patch
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8325b193bba5f01e7a7d8241f
Product
https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0662
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-qm9w-fmpj-879h
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