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CVE-2022-1796 json

Use After Free in vim/vim

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-25076

cvss
6.6
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4979.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 8.2.4979
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.0135-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1796

  • vim Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12
  • vim Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13
  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm8
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm8

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1796

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 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 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 8.2.5000-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-1796

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vim CBL-Mariner 2.0 8.2.5064-1

azure linux advisories AZL-9791

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

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-1796 updated cvss 6.6

vim: Use After Free

  • 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 8 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 Red Hat Virtualization 4 vim-common, 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

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/f6739b58-49f9-4056-a843-bf76bbc1253e referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
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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