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CVE record · CVE-2022-0572

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

CVSS 8.4 HighCriticalEPSS 0.26 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 8.4 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.26 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 13 Feb 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
VendorProductVersions
vim vim/vim
  • affected unspecified to before 8.2 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2022-0572
CNA
@huntrdev
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-122
Tags
Published
13 Feb 2022
Updated
3 Nov 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
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 0.26, the 98th 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 13 Feb 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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.