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CVE-2022-2816

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2816 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0212, specifically impacting fedoraproject fedora and vim. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring user interaction and local access for exploitation. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0212CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 41st 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: 18627-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0360-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18634-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0325-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 9.0.0360-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 9.0.0360-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 9.0.0325-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0325-1

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-2816Low

vim: out-of-bounds read in check_vim9_unlet() at src/vim9cmds.c

Aug 12, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-2816Important

Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim

Aug 9, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/dbdd16b62560413abcc3c8e893cc3010ccf31666
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/e2a83037-fcf9-4218-b2b9-b7507dacde58
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHFAR6OY6G77M6GXCJT75A4KITLNR6GO
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16