CVE-2025-9389

Aug. 24, 2025, 1:15 p.m.

4.8
Medium

Description

A vulnerability was identified in vim 9.1.0000. Affected is the function __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms of the file memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be performed locally. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. Some users are not able to reproduce this. One of the users mentions that this appears not to be working, "when coloring is turned on".

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Vim
  • Vim
  • 9.1.0000

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a vim vim 9.1.0000 / / / / / / /

References

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iFbTpW79vqBPkFjWYzGYIh_E6esPhYVY/view?usp=sharing
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/17940
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/17940#issuecomment-3203415781
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.321222
https://vuldb.com/?id.321222
https://vuldb.com/?submit.630898

Tags

CWE-119
cna@vuldb.com
2025-08-24
CVE-2025-9389

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: PROOF_OF_CONCEPT

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 24, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 24, 2025, 1:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cna@vuldb.com

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