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CVE-2022-2980

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2980 is a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0259, including various Fedora distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (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 (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0259CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0070 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18634-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0325-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18627-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0360-1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vim
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-2980Low

vim: null pointer dereference in do_mouse() at src/mouse.c

Aug 25, 2022
microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-2980Moderate

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

Aug 9, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/80525751c5ce9ed82c41d83faf9ef38667bf61b1
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/6e7b12a5-242c-453d-b39e-9625d563b0ea
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWOJOA7PZZAMBI5GFTL6PWHXMWSDLUXL
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16