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CVE-2022-0417

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0417 describes a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Vim versions prior to 8.2. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability through local access and user interaction. While the CVSS score is 7.8, indicating significant risk, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or notable community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4245CPE 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
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 71st 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 (6)

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: 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
debianworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Feb/CVE-2022-0417Important

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

Feb 8, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-0417Moderate

vim: heap-based-buffer-overflow in ex_retab() of src/indent.c

Feb 1, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.html
github.com / vim/vim/commit/652dee448618589de5528a9e9a36995803f5557a
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/fc86bc8d-c866-4ade-8b7f-e49cec306d1a
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00014.html
MitigationThird 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