Answer in brief
CVE-2026-59857 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.6) vulnerability in Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps vim/vim (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 5.6. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps vim/vim (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| vim/vimgeneric | < 9.2.0725 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Jul 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 10, 2026
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0725, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sal() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SAL sound-folding rules into a caller-owned result buffer, but its result writes are guarded with reslen < MAXWLEN, allowing reslen to reach MAXWLEN before res[reslen] = NUL writes one byte past the end of the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer. A boundary-length word passed to soundfold(), or reached via sound-based spell suggestion while a SAL-based spell language is active under a non-multibyte 8-bit encoding, can corrupt the eval_soundfold() stack frame and crash the editor. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0725.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.
Answer in brief
CVE-2026-59857 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.6) vulnerability in Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in SAL Soundfolding. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps vim/vim (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.
CVSS is 5.6. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps vim/vim (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| vim/vimgeneric | < 9.2.0725 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Jul 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Jul 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Jul 10, 2026
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0725, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sal() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SAL sound-folding rules into a caller-owned result buffer, but its result writes are guarded with reslen < MAXWLEN, allowing reslen to reach MAXWLEN before res[reslen] = NUL writes one byte past the end of the MAXWLEN-element stack buffer. A boundary-length word passed to soundfold(), or reached via sound-based spell suggestion while a SAL-based spell language is active under a non-multibyte 8-bit encoding, can corrupt the eval_soundfold() stack frame and crash the editor. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0725.
Quoted source text, attributed separately from HOL analysis.