CVE-2022-2998 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Use after free in Browser Creation in Google Chrome prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced a user to engage in a specific UI interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Published: 2022-09-26

Score: 8.8 High

EPSS: 4.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Google

Chrome

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 104.0.5112.101

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.04473.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
https://crbug.com/1329794

History

Wed, 21 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Google Chrome

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2022-09-26T15:01:18.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-21T19:05:17.361Z

Reserved: 2022-08-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-2998

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T00:53:00.650Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-26T16:15:11.670

Modified: 2025-05-21T19:15:56.683

Link: CVE-2022-2998

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-416

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