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

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

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

Tue Mar 31 2026

Open Source

Vulnerability

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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. [...]