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CVE-2022-4293 (GCVE-0-2022-4293)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 17:56
VLAI
Title
Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator in vim/vim
Summary
Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0804.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-14 14:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1077 - Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0804 (custom)
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        "dateReserved": "2022-12-05T00:00:00.000Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2025-04-14T17:56:49.676Z",
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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.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.