High severity · published Jun 25, 2026
CVE-2026-57453
Vim: PowerShell Command Injection via Unescaped Filename in zip.vim Extraction
7.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.1784 until 9.2.0678, when the bundled zip plugin autoload/zip.vim falls back to PowerShell to browse, read, extract, update or delete entries in a zip archive, it builds the PowerShell command by inserting archive entry names that are quoted only for the shell, not for PowerShell. A crafted entry name can break out of the intended string context and cause PowerShell to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running Vim, triggered by opening, viewing or extracting the archive. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0678.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 11% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VI
vim · vim
>= 9.1.1784, < 9.2.0678 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57453
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-57453
Patch
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b2cc9be119d51212bf0d3f2a99
Product
https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0678
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-x5fg-h5w9-9frf
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