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CVE-2022-2874

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2874 is a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0224. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction and local access, potentially leading to a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0224CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 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-2022-2874Low

vim: NULL pointer dereference in generate_loadvar() in vim9compile.c

Aug 16, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-2874Moderate

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

Aug 9, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/4875d6ab068f09df88d24d81de40dcd8d56e243d
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/95f97dfe-247d-475d-9740-b7adc71f4c79
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16