CVE-2022-3591 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0789.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Neovim	Neovim
Vim	Vim

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:neovim:neovim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8f3c3c6cd044e3b5bf08dbfa3b3f04bb3f711bad
https://huntr.dev/bounties/a5a998c2-4b07-47a7-91be-dbc1886b3921
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3591
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3591

History

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Neovim Neovim neovim
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:neovim:neovim::::::::
Vendors & Products		Neovim Neovim neovim

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00083}`	epss `{'score': 0.00069}`

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: @huntrdev

Published: 2022-12-02T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T15:53:54.119Z

Reserved: 2022-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3591

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.489Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-12-02T17:15:09.873

Modified: 2026-09-24T15:38:23.437

Link: CVE-2022-3591

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3591 - Bugzilla

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