CVE-2026-35177

A flaw was found in Vim's zip.vim plugin. A local user could be tricked into opening a specially crafted zip archive, which would allow a path traversal bypass. This vulnerability enables an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system, potentially leading to data integrity issues or further system compromise.

There's a flaw in zip.vim plugin in Vim, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. A user must be tricked into opening a specially crafted zip archive for exploitation, potentially compromising data integrity or the system. When successfully exploited this vulnerability enables the attacker to overwrite arbitrary files or inject code in sensitive system's location, the impact of the exploitation depends on the privileges which the vim process is being executed. Sensitive or privileges files are only susceptible to be overwritten only if the vim process is being executed by a high privileged user.

Red Hat Product Security team has rated this vulnerability as having a impact of MODERATE, this decision was made by the fact the user needs to be tricked to open a maliciously crafted file in order to a successful attack to be performed. Additionally the impact will be limited to files which the user running the vim process has write permissions.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Avoid opening untrusted zip archives with Vim. This operational control prevents the necessary user interaction required to trigger the path traversal vulnerability in the zip.vim plugin.