ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-43961
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961
Upstream
Published
2026-08-19T14:17:31.793Z
Modified
2026-08-27T22:18:03.586812358Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A flaw was found in Vim's netrw plugin. A crafted filename containing quote characters and expression fragments can break out of the quoted context during mark/unmark operations, allowing arbitrary Vimscript execution. This can be leveraged to run shell commands with the privileges of the user running Vim.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.23 / vim

Package

Name
vim
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/vim?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
9.2.0481-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-43961.json"