CVE-2022-0685

vim: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in vim

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 20, 2022

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to a crash when using a special multi-byte character and leads to an out-of-range vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read