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CVE-2022-4292

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-4292 is a high-severity Use-After-Free vulnerability affecting Vim versions prior to 9.0.0882, including NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy Administration Utility. This flaw, rated 7.8 CVSS, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a low-complexity attack requiring user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.0.0882CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:ontap_select_deploy_administration_utility:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0066 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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 (1)

redhatCVE-2022-4292Low

vim: use-after-free in did_set_spelllang() in src/spell.c

Dec 2, 2022

References

github.com / vim/vim/commit/c3d27ada14acd02db357f2d16347acc22cb17e93
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/da3d4c47-e57a-451e-993d-9df0ed31f57b
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WYC22GGZ6QA66HLNLHCTAJU265TT3O33
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-16
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230113-0005
Third Party Advisory