CVE-2026-73078
CVE-2026-73078: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh8.8
High [CVE-2026-73078] Arbitrary Code Execution via Crafted Netrw Menu Entries
CVE-2026-73078Source published Source updated
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0840, runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim loads netrw and runtime/pack/dist/opt/netrw/autoload/netrw.vim constructs Bookmarks, History, and Targets menu entries by interpolating attacker-controlled directory paths into executed:menu commands. s:NetrwBookmarkMenu(), s:NetrwTgtMenu(), g:netrw_menu_escape, EX_TRLBAR, and netrw#MakeTgt() fail to neutralize the | command separator or single quotes at five construction sites, allowing a crafted path browsed or bookmarked in GUI Vim to execute arbitrary Ex and operating-system commands. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0840. Browsing or bookmarking a maliciously crafted path in GUI Vim allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands as the running user. By crafting a malicious…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
2 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- < 9.2.0840
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 9.2.0840
- vim-2:9.1.083-9.el10_2.20
- vim-2:8.0.1763-31.el8_10.7
- vim-2:8.2.2637-26.el9_8.21
3 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- To mitigate this issue, avoid browsing or bookmarking untrusted or maliciously crafted directory paths within GUI Vim. Users should exercise caution when interacting with `netrw` menu entries derived from external or untrusted sources.
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