CVE-2022-0393: vim vim/vim

Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim

CVSS 8.4 HighEPSS 0.014 · 72nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 28 Jan 2022, 21:30 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-2022-0393

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-125

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.014, the 72nd 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 28 Jan 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/ecc8f488-01a0-477f-848f-e30b8e524bba confirm
github.com/vim/vim/commit/a4bc2dd7cccf5a4a9f78b58b6f35a45d17164323
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFXFAILMLUIK4MBUEZO4HNBNKYZRJ5AP/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ZLEHVP4LNAGER4ZDGUDS5V5YVQD6INF/ vendor-advisoryfedora
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32 vendor-advisorygentoo

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