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CVE-2022-0729

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0729 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 8.2.4440, as well as products from Apple, Debian, and Fedora. It involves an out-of-range pointer offset, allowing an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity over a network. While no public exploits, Metasploit modules, or Nuclei templates are currently available, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage, the vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.8 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 70/100. It is not currently listed on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4440CPE 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

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (9)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18784-16820Fixed in: 8.2.4495-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18758-16823Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 8.2.4495-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 8.2.4495-1
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 8.2.4495-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 8.2.4495-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 8.2.4743-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 8.2.4743-1

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2022-Mar/CVE-2022-0729

CVE-2022-0729

Mar 8, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-0729Moderate

vim: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

Feb 23, 2022
microsoft2022-Feb/CVE-2022-0729Important

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in vim/vim

Feb 8, 2022

References

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/6456fae9ba8e72c74b2c0c499eaf09974604ff30
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/f3f3d992-7bd6-4ee5-a502-ae0e5f8016ea
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird 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/HBUYQBZ6GWAWJRWP7AODJ4KHW5BCKDVP
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT213488
Release NotesThird Party Advisory