CVE-2022-1621: vim vim/vim

Heap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy find_word in vim/vim

CVSS 7.3 HighEPSS 0.024 · 83rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 9 May 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 8.2.4919 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2022-1621

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-122

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.024, the 83rd 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 9 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/520ce714-bfd2-4646-9458-f52cd22bb2fb
github.com/vim/vim/commit/7c824682d2028432ee082703ef0ab399867a089b
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00022.html mailing-list
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIP7KG7TVS5YF3QREAY2GOGUT3YUBZAI/ vendor-advisory
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/msg00032.html mailing-list
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16 vendor-advisory

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.