CVE-2025-29768

🔶 medium

Summary

Vim, a text editor, is vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files in versions prior to 9.1.1198. The impact is medium because a user must be made to view such an archive with Vim and then press 'x' on such a strange filename. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1198.

CVSS Score

4.4

Medium

EPSS Score

0.2

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2025-03-13

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 11.6% of all 329,456 vulnerabilities in our database.

#291,401

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Mar 13, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-08-18

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-88

📦 Affected Products 2

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
vim	vim	Affected	< 9.1.1198
netapp	bootstrap_os	Affected	v-

🔗 References 3

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f209dcd3defb95bae2...

Patch

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-...

Vendor Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0...

Third Party Advisory

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