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CVE-2022-3591

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-3591 is a Use After Free vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0789. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) could allow an attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, though it requires user interaction and local access. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0789CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 28th 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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-3591Low

vim: Use After Free

Dec 2, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/8f3c3c6cd044e3b5bf08dbfa3b3f04bb3f711bad
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a5a998c2-4b07-47a7-91be-dbc1886b3921
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16