7.8

CVE-2022-3591: neovim Use After Free

CVSS: 7.8v3.0HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3591DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3591
Published 02-12-2022Last modified 23-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-3591 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in neovim. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
SUSE-SU-2022:4631-1SUSE-SU-2023:0209-1USN-5775-1USN-6420-1

Timeline

  1. 02-12-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 0.39% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Vim2 products
Debian1 product
  • vim< 2:9.0.0813-1
Neovim1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • vim< 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm13 | < 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 | < 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm5 | < 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18 | < 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12

4 vendors · 5 products

References

8 links