CVE-2022-4293 — Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator in GitHub repository vim/vim p

Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0804.

01What is this vulnerability?

Floating Point Comparison with Incorrect Operator in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0804.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
vim	vim/vim	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-14T17:56:49.676Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/385a835f-6e33-4d00-acce-ac99f3939143
• github.com — https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cdef1cefa2a440911c727558562f83ed9b00e16b
• security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0007/
• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16