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CVE-2022-2580

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2580 is a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0102. This flaw could allow an attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts through a low-complexity local attack requiring user interaction. While rated with a CVSS score of 7.8, 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
< 9.0.0102CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.5
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 40th 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: 18651-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0181-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18634-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0325-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 9.0.0181-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 9.0.0181-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 9.0.0325-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0325-1

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-2580Important

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

Aug 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-2580Low

vim: Out-of-bounds Read in vim

Aug 1, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/1e56bda9048a9625bce6e660938c834c5c15b07d
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/c5f2f1d4-0441-4881-b19c-055acaa16249
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory