5.5

CVE-2022-1771: vim Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSS: 5.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-1771DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1771
Published 18-05-2022Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-1771 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in vim. EPSS estimates a 1.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12337-1SUSE-SU-2022:2102-1SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1USN-6557-1

Timeline

  1. 18-05-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4975.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 4 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

68%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (huntr.dev)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Vim2 products
Debian1 product
  • vim< 2:9.0.0135-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • vim< 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15 | < 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22 | < 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7 | < 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21 | < 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15

3 vendors · 4 products

References

9 links