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CVE-2022-1796

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-1796 is a Use After Free vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 8.2.4979. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.4979CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 60th 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 (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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: cbl2 vim 8.2.5064-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed 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

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-1796Moderate

vim: Use After Free

May 19, 2022
microsoft2022-May/CVE-2022-1796Important

Use After Free in vim/vim

May 10, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/28d032cc688ccfda18c5bbcab8b50aba6e18cde5
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/f6739b58-49f9-4056-a843-bf76bbc1253e
ExploitThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16
Third Party Advisory