- Feb 4, 2016
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A bug impacting editors Vim and Neovim could allow a trojan code to escape sandbox mitigations.
A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands. Security researcher Armin Razmjou warned that exploiting the bug is as easy as tricking a target into clicking on a specially crafted text file in either editor.