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CVE-2022-0408

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0408 is a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 8.2, impacting various Debian and Fedora distributions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability locally, requiring user interaction, to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While the CVSS score is 7.8, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4247CPE 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
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (9)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18799-16820Fixed in: 8.2.4281-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18758-16823Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 8.2.4281-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 8.2.4281-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 8.2.4743-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 8.2.4281-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 8.2.4281-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 8.2.4743-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2022-Feb/CVE-2022-0408

CVE-2022-0408

Feb 8, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-0408Moderate

vim: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in spellsuggest.c

Jan 30, 2022
microsoft2022-Jan/CVE-2022-0408Important

Stack-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

Jan 11, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/06f15416bb8d5636200a10776f1752c4d6e49f31
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/5e635bad-5cf6-46cd-aeac-34ef224e179d
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00018.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/7ZLEHVP4LNAGER4ZDGUDS5V5YVQD6INF
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFXFAILMLUIK4MBUEZO4HNBNKYZRJ5AP
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory