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CVE-2022-4293

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4293 describes a floating point comparison vulnerability in vim/vim versions prior to 9.0.0804, affecting the popular Vim text editor. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0804CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vim
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-4293Low

vim: floating point exception in num_divide() in src/eval.c

Dec 2, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/cdef1cefa2a440911c727558562f83ed9b00e16b
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/385a835f-6e33-4d00-acce-ac99f3939143
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230203-0007