CVE-2022-1771

Publication date 18 May 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15

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Notes

eslerm

requires extensive feature backport on xenial

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: 51f0bfb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H