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CVE-2022-2817: Use After Free in vim/vim

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0213.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• vim/vim: before 9.0.0213 — fixed in 9.0.0213

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: vim/vim 9.0.0213. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/a7b7d242-3d88-4bde-a681-6c986aff886f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHFAR6OY6G77M6GXCJT75A4KITLNR6GO/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/a7b7d242-3d88-4bde-a681-6c986aff886f
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CHFAR6OY6G77M6GXCJT75A4KITLNR6GO/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16

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