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based on code collected
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Project Summary
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 291 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2004
ending with its most recent commit about 23 hours ago
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Project Security
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Few reported vulnerabilities
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30 Day SummaryJul 20 2026 — Aug 19 2026
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12 Month SummaryAug 19 2025 — Aug 19 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for vim )
Repository URL: https://github.com/vim/vim
Version: 49bc61c685fd4710f695bc7c7a61add0e9316465
- 2026-08-20
- Last Analyzed
- 915,437
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.03
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 1,049
- Total defects
- 26
- Outstanding
- 895
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
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| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 16 |