CVE-2022-2042: vim vim/vim

Use After Free in vim/vim

CVSS 7.4 HighEPSS 0.015 · 74th percentile

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

Identifiers

CVE-2022-2042

CNA

@huntrdev

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-416

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
7.4	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L	CNA (@huntrdev)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.015, the 74th 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 Jun 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

huntr.dev/bounties/8628b4cd-4055-4059-aed4-64f7fdc10eba
github.com/vim/vim/commit/2813f38e021c6e6581c0c88fcf107e41788bc835
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32 vendor-advisory
support.apple.com/kb/HT213443
support.apple.com/kb/HT213444
support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43 mailing-list
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/45 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.