CVE-2022-1629: vim vim/vim

Buffer Over-read in function find_next_quote in vim/vim

CVSS 6.6 MediumEPSS 0.019 · 79th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: @huntrdev) at 10 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 8.2.4925 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2022-1629

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-126

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 0.019, the 79th 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 10 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/e26d08d4-1886-41f0-9af4-f3e1bf3d52ee
github.com/vim/vim/commit/53a70289c2712808e6d4e88927e03cac01b470dd
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
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16 vendor-advisory

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