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CVE-2022-4141

Published: 25 November 2022

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
vim
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(change too intrusive)
focal Ignored
(change too intrusive)
jammy Ignored
(change too intrusive)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Not vulnerable
(2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.1)
trusty Ignored
(change too intrusive)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(change too intrusive)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H