🛡️ CVE-2022-2817 — fedora

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-416 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

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Description

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

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-2022-2817 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-2817 is recorded against 2 packages.

fedora
vim (fixed in 9.0.0213)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 August 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
security.gentoo.org
github.com
huntr.dev
lists.fedoraproject.org
security.gentoo.org

CVE-2022-2817 on other distributions

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

Alpine 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-416

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2022-08-15

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
fedora	—	—
vim	—	9.0.0213

References

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory 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

Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/249e1b903a9c0460d618f6dcc59aeb8c03b24b20

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory 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

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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