User Arminius discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the standard UNIX editor Vi , which also affected the Neovim fork, an extensible editor focused on modern code and features: Editors typically provide a way to embed editor configuration commands which are executed once a file is opened, while harmful commands are filtered by a sandbox mechanism. It was discovered that the source command was not filtered, allowing shell command execution with a carefully crafted file opened in Neovim.