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CVE-2022-2345: Use After Free in vim/vim

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-07-08 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0046.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• vim/vim: before 9.0.0046 — fixed in 9.0.0046

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: vim/vim 9.0.0046. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/32acf1f1a72ebb9d8942b9c9d80023bf1bb668ea
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/1eed7009-db6d-487b-bc41-8f2fd260483f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43Y3VJPOTTY3NTREDIFUPITM2POG4ZLP/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/32acf1f1a72ebb9d8942b9c9d80023bf1bb668ea
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/1eed7009-db6d-487b-bc41-8f2fd260483f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43Y3VJPOTTY3NTREDIFUPITM2POG4ZLP/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16

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