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CVE-2022-1771

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-1771 describes an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in Vim, specifically affecting versions prior to 8.2.4975. This flaw could lead to a denial-of-service condition due to excessive resource consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, but has a high impact on availability (A:H). The attack complexity is low (AC:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4975CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0117 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 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 (7)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18699-16820Fixed in: 8.2.5064-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18700-16823Fixed in: 8.2.5064-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 8.2.5064-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 8.2.5064-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 8.2.5064-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 8.2.5064-1

Vendor Advisories (4)

denollm-deno-650ac71876afb4f8CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
kerasllm-keras-d13bbd8768a57997CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP 2 Security Updates

Apr 12, 2024
redhatCVE-2022-1771Low

vim: recursive command line loop may cause a Stack-based Buffer Overflow

May 18, 2022
microsoft2022-May/CVE-2022-1771Moderate

Uncontrolled Recursion in vim/vim

May 10, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/51f0bfb88a3554ca2dde777d78a59880d1ee37a8
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/faa74175-5317-4b71-a363-dfc39094ecbb
ExploitThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16