CVE-2022-3297 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0579.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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/0ff01835a40f549c5c4a550502f62a2ac9ac447c
https://huntr.dev/bounties/1aa9ec92-0355-4710-bf85-5bce9effa01c
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-2022-3297
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3297

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00049}`	epss `{'score': 0.00053}`

Wed, 21 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntrdev

Published: 2022-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-21T19:40:02.377Z

Reserved: 2022-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3297

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.447Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-25T19:15:09.673

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:19:14.617

Link: CVE-2022-3297

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3297 - Bugzilla

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