🛡️ CVE-2022-1420 — fedora

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-823 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4774.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-1420 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • fedora
  • macos (fixed in 13.0)
  • vim (fixed in 8.2.4774)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 April 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

seclists.org
seclists.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
support.apple.com
seclists.org
seclists.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org

CVE-2022-1420 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-823
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-21
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fedora — —
macos — 13.0
vim — 8.2.4774

References

Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/a4323ef8-90ea-4e1c-90e9-c778f0ecf326
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/a4323ef8-90ea-4e1c-90e9-c778f0ecf326
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488

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