High severity · published Nov 25, 2022
CVE-2022-4141
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
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36; 37 · source: NVD
NE
Neovim · Neovim
0.1.0 before 0.10.0 · source: NVD
VI
Vim · Vim
through 9.0.0946 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4141
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4141
Patch
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5
Exploit
https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00015.html
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HNSUFIQOJ33G/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4MSOXCYWNHUC/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
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