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.
{
"cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-184",
"CWE-77"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73078.json"
}"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-73078.json"
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"deprecated": false,
"digest": {
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"threshold": 0.9
},
"id": "CVE-2026-73078-d493a151",
"signature_type": "Line",
"signature_version": "v1",
"source": "https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/29c6fd090d4520592f8be7d9ec81190edf25ef69",
"target": {
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}
}
]
"2026-08-13T08:06:44Z"