vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-53906: Medium priority package update for vim

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 15, 2025
Added
Aug 19, 2025
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

A path traversal flaw was found in Vim. Successful exploitation can lead to overwriting sensitive files or placing executable code in privileged locations, depending on the permissions of the process editing the archive.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-commonamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-dataamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-default-editoramazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-enhancedamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-enhanced-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-filesystemamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-minimalamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-vim-minimal-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-xxdamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-xxd-debuginfo
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