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CVE-2021-4173 (GCVE-0-2021-4173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-27 12:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:34
VLAI
Title
Use After Free in vim/vim
Summary
vim is vulnerable to Use After Free
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 8.2 (custom)
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      "title": "vim: use-after-free with nested :def function",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2021/cve-2021-4173.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-09-03T00:49:37Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2021-4173",
      "id": "CVE-2021-4173",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T03:47:50Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "240",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2021-4173",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2021-4173.json",
      "version": "17"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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