CVE-2023-2609 | NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim

Exp

NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1531.

Published: 2023-05-09 Last update: 2026-06-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2023-2609 is rated Exploit Available (50.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.47%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2023-2609

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-2609

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.47% +0.46%
2 2025-11-21 0.11% 0.02% -0.09%
3 2025-11-18 — 0.11% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-2609

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
7.8 3.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-2609

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2023-2609

GHSA-m4x7-w6vx-j9fm · Severity: high — NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1531.

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-2609

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2023-2609: 1 source package rows (vim); 166 state rows across 6 repos (3.17-main, 3.19-main, 3.20-main, 3.21-main, 3.22-main, edge-main); fixed 0, open 166. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-2609
debian unimportant CVE-2023-2609 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (vim), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2609
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2609
suse high CVE-2023-2609 severity important: SUSE including 290 source package names (1.1.1.28.74:vim-data-common-9.0.1632-150500.20.3.1, 1.1.1.28.74:vim-small-9.0.1632-150500.20.3.1, …), 973 product×package rows across 335 product lines (Container ses/7.1/ceph/haproxy, Container suse/hpc/warewulf4-x86_64/sle-hpc-node, … (335 product lines)): Fixed 810, Known Affected 160, Known Not Affected 3. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2609/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-2609 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vim), 8 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 8. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2609

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-2609

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
vim vim < 9.0.1531 cpe:2.3:a:vim:vim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 37 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-2609

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