CVE-2022-3278 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0552.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Vim	Vim

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/69082916c8b5d321545d60b9f5facad0a2dd5a4e
https://huntr.dev/bounties/a9fad77e-f245-4ce9-ba15-c7d4c86c4612
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4QI7AETXBHPC7SGA77Q7O5IEGULWYET7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTBVD4J2SKVSWK4VBN5JP5OEVK6GDS3N/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSSEWQLK55MCNT4Z2IIJEJYEI5HLCODI/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3278
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3278

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00033}`	epss `{'score': 0.00036}`

Thu, 22 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntrdev

Published: 2022-09-23T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-22T18:28:37.480Z

Reserved: 2022-09-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3278

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:05.881Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-23T22:15:09.457

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:19:12.103

Link: CVE-2022-3278

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3278 - Bugzilla

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