CVE-2022-4141

7.8 HIGH

Published: November 25, 2022 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5

Source: security@huntr.dev

Patch Third Party Advisory

https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f

Source: security@huntr.dev

Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00015.html

Source: security@huntr.dev

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HNSUFIQOJ33G/

Source: security@huntr.dev

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4MSOXCYWNHUC/

Source: security@huntr.dev

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

Source: security@huntr.dev

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5