| Name | CVE-2026-11487 |
| Description | A flaw has been found in Neovim up to 0.12.2. Affected by this issue is the function M.read of the file runtime/lua/vim/secure.lua of the component View Branch. Executing a manipulation of the argument path can lead to command injection. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called f83e0dcaf8cf18de94828341b0a1a61a86c75baf. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1139999 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| neovim (PTS) | bullseye | 0.4.4-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.7.2-7 | fixed |
| trixie | 0.10.4-8 | vulnerable |
| forky | 0.12.3-4 | fixed |
| sid | 0.12.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| neovim | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| neovim | source | bookworm | (not affected) | | | |
| neovim | source | (unstable) | 0.12.3-1 | | | 1139999 |
Notes
[trixie] - neovim <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - neovim <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; vim.secure added upstream in 0.9)
[bullseye] - neovim <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; vim.secure added upstream in 0.9)
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/39914
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/39918
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/f83e0dcaf8cf18de94828341b0a1a61a86c75baf (v0.12.3)