CVE-2022-0685: vim vim/vim

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in vim/vim

CVSS 8.4 HighEPSS 0.017 · 77th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 20 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
vim	vim/vim	affected unspecified to before 8.2.4418 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2022-0685

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-823

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

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 0.017, the 77th 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 20 Feb 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/27230da3-9b1a-4d5d-8cdf-4b1e62fcd782
github.com/vim/vim/commit/5921aeb5741fc6e84c870d68c7c35b93ad0c9f87
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ZLEHVP4LNAGER4ZDGUDS5V5YVQD6INF/ vendor-advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00018.html mailing-list
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32 vendor-advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 mailing-list
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00009.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.