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CVE-2022-2522Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.58%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 52% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0061.
Timeline
ID reserved
By @huntrdev
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| @huntrdevCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
References
References5
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/3a2d83af-9542-4d93-8784-98b115135a22 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5fa9f23a63651a8abdb074b4fc2ec9b1adc6b089 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b9e717367c395490149495cf375911b5d9de889e (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/3a2d83af-9542-4d93-8784-98b115135a22/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- GLSA-202305-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-34779 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-2522)Record last updated .