Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-41411

Medium

Published: 24 April 2026

Published
24 April 2026
Modified
27 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0014 34.5th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-41411 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Vim Vim. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Unix Shell (T1059.004); ranked at the 34.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0357, A command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file processing. When resolving a tag, the filename field from the tags file is passed through wildcard expansion to resolve…

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environment variables and wildcards. If the filename field contains backtick syntax (e.g., `command`), Vim executes the embedded command via the system shell with the full privileges of the running user.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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Why these techniques?

CWE-78 command injection in Vim tag processing directly enables Unix shell command execution (T1059.004) via backtick expansion and facilitates client-side exploitation for arbitrary code execution (T1203).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

Affected Assets

vim
vim
≤ 9.2.0357

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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