CVE-2025-66476

An uncontrolled search-path vulnerability in Vim for Microsoft Windows allows an attacker who can place a trojanized executable in a directory opened by the user to cause Vim to run that executable when Vim invokes external commands (for example :grep, :!, filters !, :make, or system() in Vimscript). This can result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Vim. The issue only affects Vim on Windows platforms (ms-win builds) and is not triggered on Unix-like systems.

This flaw is specific to Vim on Microsoft Windows systems and arises from Windows-only search-path behavior when external commands are invoked. The vulnerable code path does not exist in Vim builds for Linux. As a result, Red Hat products are not affected by this vulnerability.

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