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CVE-2022-0572

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0572 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 8.2, impacting products from Apple, Debian, Fedora, and Vim itself. It carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4359CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2658 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 11,615 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18789-16820Fixed in: 8.2.4432-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18758-16823Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 8.2.4432-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 8.2.4432-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 8.2.4743-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-0572Moderate

vim: heap overflow in ex_retab() may lead to crash

Feb 14, 2022
microsoft2022-Feb/CVE-2022-0572Important

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

Feb 8, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.html
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
Mailing ListRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / vim/vim/commit/6e28703a8e41f775f64e442c5d11ce1ff599aa3f
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/bf3e0643-03e9-4436-a1c8-74e7111c32bf
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00022.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4GOY5YWTP5QUY2EFLCL7AUWA2CV57C37
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7ZLEHVP4LNAGER4ZDGUDS5V5YVQD6INF
support.apple.com / kb/HT213488
Release NotesThird Party Advisory