Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-29768

Medium

Published: 13 March 2025

Published
13 March 2025
Modified
18 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0010 28.0th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-29768 is a medium-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Vim Vim. Its CVSS base score is 4.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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then press 'x' on such a strange filename. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1198.

CWE(s)
CWE-88

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vim
vim
≤ 9.1.1198
netapp
bootstrap os
all versions

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References