A critical command execution vulnerability has been discovered in the Vim and Neovim command-line text editing application. Both applications come preinstalled on a majority of Linux based OS systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-12735 can be exploited by tricking users into opening a specially crafted text file with Vim or Neovim editor. This could allow … Continue reading “Linux Vim and Neovim Modeline Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability”