OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xxd (opens in a new tab)
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- published21 May 2026
- disclosed15 May 2026
Introduced: 15 May 2026
CVE-2026-46483 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xxd package and not the xxd package as distributed by RHEL.
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0479, a command injection vulnerability exists in tar#Vimuntar() in runtime/autoload/tar.vim when decompressing .tgz archives on Unix-like systems. The function builds :!gunzip and :!gzip -d commands using shellescape(tartail) without the {special} flag, allowing a crafted archive filename to trigger Vim cmdline-special expansion and execute shell commands in the user's context. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0479.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477915
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46483
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30900
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:38509
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3fb5e58fbc63d86a3e65f1a141b0d67af2aa38a1
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0479
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-2fpv-9ff7-xg5w