CVE-2025-29768

Publication date 13 March 2025

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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The advisory states that the vulnerability happens due to overwriting files with the -o option. The usage of -o option was introduced in version 9.1.0686, and therefore prior releases don't seem to be affected.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: f209dcd

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.4 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.4 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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