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CVE-2022-2288

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2288 is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Vim prior to version 9.0, specifically impacting Fedora and Vim distributions. It carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk. Exploitation requires local access and user interaction (UI:R), but could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0025CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 9.0CPE 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
1.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0136 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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: 18660-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0050-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18661-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0050-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 9.0.0050-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 9.0.0050-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 9.0.0050-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0050-2

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Jul/CVE-2022-2288Important

Out-of-bounds Write in vim/vim

Jul 12, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-2288Low

vim: out of bounds write in parse_command_modifiers() at ex_docmd.c

Jul 3, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/c6fdb15d423df22e1776844811d082322475e48a
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a71bdcb7-4e9b-4650-ab6a-fe8e3e9852ad
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43Y3VJPOTTY3NTREDIFUPITM2POG4ZLP
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UXPO5EHDV6J4B27E65DOQGZFELUFPRSK
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202208-32
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16