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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2022-2287 json

Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim

published 2022-07-02 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also EUVD-2022-34560

cvss
8.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 9.0
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.0135-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2287

  • vim Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.16
  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.10
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm11
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm19
  • vim Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2287

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 +25 more 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1SUSE-SU-2022:3229-1

  • 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 9.0.0050-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-2287

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 9.0.0050-2

azure linux advisories AZL-10017

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

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-2022-2287 updated cvss 7.1

vim: out of bounds read in suggest_trie_walk() at spellsuggest.c

  • 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 “Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.”
  • 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 “Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.”
  • 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
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

1.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/654aa069-3a9d-45d3-9a52-c1cf3490c284 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • vim vim/vim

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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