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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.3

CVE-2022-2980 json

NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

published 2022-08-25 4 y ago modified 2026-11-02 6 d ago also EUVD-2022-35201

cvss
6.3
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0259.

Patch / fix

  • vim vim/vim 9.0.0259
  • vim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:9.0.0626-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2980

  • vim Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13
  • vim Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2980

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 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 9.0.0369-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-2980

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 9.0.0325-1

azure linux advisories AZL-10639

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-2022-2980 updated cvss 5.5

vim: null pointer dereference in do_mouse() at src/mouse.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

0.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/6e7b12a5-242c-453d-b39e-9625d563b0ea referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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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