CVE-2022-0318: vim vim/vim

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

CVSS 6.6 MediumEPSS 0.020 · 81st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 21 Jan 2022, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
vim	vim/vim	affected unspecified to before 8.2 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2022-0318

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-122

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.6	Medium	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H	CNA (@huntrdev)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.020, the 81st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 Jan 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/0d10ba02-b138-4e68-a284-67f781a62d08
github.com/vim/vim/commit/57df9e8a9f9ae1aafdde9b86b10ad907627a87dc
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32 vendor-advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT213444
support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43 mailing-list
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00032.html mailing-list

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.