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medium 6.1

CVE-2022-3153 json

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

published 4y ago modified 7d ago also EUVD-2022-42577

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0404.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 9.0.0404
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.0626-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3153

  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3153

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 +27 more 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1SUSE-SU-2022:4282-1

  • vim openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.0.0453-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12337-1

  • vim CBL-Mariner 2.0 9.0.0490-1

azure linux advisories AZL-10910

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-2022-3153 updated cvss 6.1

vim: null pointer dereference in vim_regcomp()

  • 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
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/68331124-620d-48bc-a8fa-cd947b26270a referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • vim vim/vim

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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