THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-2998
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2022-2998

Chrome vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
30.3%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Google
Affected product
Chrome
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2022-09-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 30.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-2998

  • Confirm whether Google Chrome is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-2998.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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