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CVE-2022-3278

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3278 is a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0552, including various Fedora Project distributions. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to achieve a high impact on availability (A:H), but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0552CPE 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 63rd 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: 18598-16820Fixed in: 9.0.0614-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18599-16823Fixed in: 9.0.0614-1
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 9.0.0614-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 9.0.0614-1
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: vim

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2022-3278Low

vim: null pointer dereference in eval_next_non_blank() in eval.c

Sep 24, 2022
microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-3278Moderate

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

Sep 13, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/69082916c8b5d321545d60b9f5facad0a2dd5a4e
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a9fad77e-f245-4ce9-ba15-c7d4c86c4612
ExploitPatchThird 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