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high 7.3

CVE-2022-4141 json

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim

published 3y ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2022-51503

cvss
7.3
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 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 9.0.0947
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.1000-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4141

  • vim SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +4 more 9.0.1234-17.12.1
  • vim SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +26 more 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0209-1SUSE-SU-2022:4631-1

  • vim Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 9.0.0999-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-4141

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 9.0.0982-1

azure linux advisories AZL-11504

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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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-4141 updated cvss 7.8

vim: invalid memory access in substitute with function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 vim, vim-X11, vim-common, vim-minimal, vim-enhanced, vim-filesystem
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation
  • 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
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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

Affected products

  • vim vim/vim

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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