CVE-2022-4141

Public on 2022-11-25

Modified on 2024-01-12

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.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

6.7

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	vim	2023-01-24	ALAS-2023-1664
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	vim	2023-01-20	ALAS2-2023-1912
Amazon Linux 2023	vim	2023-03-22	ALAS2023-2023-098

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	CVSSv3	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2022-4141 Mitre: CVE-2022-4141