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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.6

CVE-2022-1725 json

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

published 2022-05-16 4 y ago modified 2026-11-02 6 d ago also EUVD-2022-25007

cvss
6.6
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 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4959.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 8.2.4959
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.0135-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1725

  • vim Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm13
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1725

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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-2022-1725 updated cvss 5.5

vim: null pointer dereference in vim_regexec_string() at regexp.c

  • 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
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/4363cf07-233e-4d0a-a1d5-c731a400525c 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 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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