🛡️ CVE-2022-2182 — fedora

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-122 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

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Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-2182 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2022-2182 is recorded against 2 packages.

fedora
vim (fixed in 8.2.5150)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 June 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

github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
security.gentoo.org
security.gentoo.org

CVE-2022-2182 on other distributions

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

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.8

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-122

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2022-06-23

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f7c7c3fad6d2135d558f3b36d0d1a943118aeb5e

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
fedora	—	—
vim	—	8.2.5150

References

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f7c7c3fad6d2135d558f3b36d0d1a943118aeb5e

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/238d8650-3beb-4831-a8f7-6f0b597a6fb8

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GFD2A4YLBR7OIRHTL7CK6YNMEIQ264CN/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U743FMJGFQ35GBPCQ6OWMVZEJPDFVEWM/

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f7c7c3fad6d2135d558f3b36d0d1a943118aeb5e

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://huntr.dev/bounties/238d8650-3beb-4831-a8f7-6f0b597a6fb8

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GFD2A4YLBR7OIRHTL7CK6YNMEIQ264CN/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U743FMJGFQ35GBPCQ6OWMVZEJPDFVEWM/

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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