Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim-X11  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-VIMX11-18761707
  • published14 Aug 2026
  • disclosed11 Aug 2026

Introduced: 11 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-73078  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-X11 package and not the vim-X11 package as distributed by Centos.

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.