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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 276 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2004
ending with its most recent commit about 17 hours ago
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Project Security
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Few reported vulnerabilities
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30 Day SummaryDec 17 2025 — Jan 16 2026
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12 Month SummaryJan 16 2025 — Jan 16 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for vim )
Repository URL: https://github.com/vim/vim
Version: 16c22790627f063981ce75ef3d4da1eb4f6bf8d0
- 2026-01-16
- Last Analyzed
- 902,839
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.03
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 1,034
- Total defects
- 28
- Outstanding
- 885
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
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| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 19 |