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Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open

  • Bill Toulas--BleepingComputer
  • published date: 2026-03-31 21:45:14 UTC

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. [...]

Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created mul… [+3597 chars]