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CVE-2022-3235

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3235 is a high-severity Use-After-Free vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0490, including various Debian and Fedora distributions. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a local attack requiring user interaction. While the CVSS score is 7.8, its EPSS score is very low, indicating a minimal likelihood of exploitation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0490CPE 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
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 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 (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 vim 9.0.0614-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 9.0.0614-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 vim 9.0.0490-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0490-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18609-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0490-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18598-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0614-1
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-2022-3235Low

vim: Use After Free

Sep 18, 2022
microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-3235Important

Use After Free in vim/vim

Sep 13, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/1c3dd8ddcba63c1af5112e567215b3cec2de11d0
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/96d5f7a0-a834-4571-b73b-0fe523b941af
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00032.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4QI7AETXBHPC7SGA77Q7O5IEGULWYET7
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTBVD4J2SKVSWK4VBN5JP5OEVK6GDS3N
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSSEWQLK55MCNT4Z2IIJEJYEI5HLCODI
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16