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CVE-2022-2817

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2817 is a high-severity Use After Free vulnerability (CWE-416) affecting GitHub repository vim/vim prior to version 9.0.0213, including various Fedora Project Vim packages. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high potential for impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, though it requires user interaction and local access for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. The EPSS score is very low, suggesting a minimal likelihood of exploitation in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0213CPE 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
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 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 (6)

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
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-2817Low

vim: heap use-after-free in string_quote() at src/strings.c

Aug 12, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-2817Important

Use After Free in vim/vim

Aug 9, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a7b7d242-3d88-4bde-a681-6c986aff886f
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHFAR6OY6G77M6GXCJT75A4KITLNR6GO
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16