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CVE-2022-3099

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3099 is a high-severity Use-After-Free vulnerability affecting Vim prior to version 9.0.0360, impacting various Debian and Fedora distributions. With a CVSS score of 7.8, successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring user interaction and local access. 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 vulnerability is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, indicating a low immediate threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0360CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
37CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 38th 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 (6)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18627-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0360-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18609-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0490-1
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 9.0.0490-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0490-1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-3099Important

Use After Free in vim/vim

Sep 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-3099Low

vim: Use After Free in do_cmdline() in ex_docmd.c

Sep 3, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.html
github.com / vim/vim/commit/35d21c6830fc2d68aca838424a0e786821c5891c
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/403210c7-6cc7-4874-8934-b57f88bd4f5e
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00009.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DVWBI4BVTBUMNW4NMB3WZZDQJBKIGXI3
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LLK2RMZEECKKWUQK7J46D2FQZOXFQLTC
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWOJOA7PZZAMBI5GFTL6PWHXMWSDLUXL
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16