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CVE-2022-2183

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2183 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 8.2, specifically impacting Fedora and Vim products. It carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it requires user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 8.2.5151CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 8.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
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
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 69th 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: 18682-16823Fixed in: 8.2.5172-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 8.2.5172-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 8.2.5172-1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vim
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-2183Low

vim: out-of-bounds read through get_lisp_indent() in function get_lisp_indent

Jun 23, 2022
microsoft2022-Jun/CVE-2022-2183Important

Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim

Jun 14, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/8eba2bd291b347e3008aa9e565652d51ad638cfa
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/d74ca3f9-380d-4c0a-b61c-11113cc98975
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GFD2A4YLBR7OIRHTL7CK6YNMEIQ264CN
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U743FMJGFQ35GBPCQ6OWMVZEJPDFVEWM
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16