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high 7.8

CVE-2022-0261 json

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-15446

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 8.2
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:8.2.4659-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0261

  • vim Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13
  • vim Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.14
  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.7
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0261

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vim RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-X11 RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-common RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-minimal RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-enhanced RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-filesystem RHEL 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:0894

  • vim SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +5 more 9.0.0814-17.9.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15 +24 more 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1SUSE-SU-2022:2102-1

  • vim openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.0453-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12337-1

  • vim-X11 AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.13
  • vim-X11 AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-common AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-common AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.13
  • vim-minimal AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.13
  • vim-enhanced AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.13
  • vim-enhanced AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
  • vim-filesystem AlmaLinux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.13

almalinux advisories ALSA-2022:0894

  • vim Rocky Linux 8 2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2022:0894

  • vim CBL-Mariner 2.0 8.2.4233-1

azure linux advisories AZL-7746

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • vim Arch Linux 8.2.4151-1
  • gvim Arch Linux 8.2.4151-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2738

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0261 updated cvss 7.8

vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in block_insert() in src/ops.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) vim-X11 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12, vim-common 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12, vim-enhanced 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12, vim-filesystem 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) vim 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12, vim-minimal 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12
    fixed: vendor fix “Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.” RHSA-2022:0894
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/fa795954-8775-4f23-98c6-d4d4d3fe8a82 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • vim vim/vim

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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