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CVE-2022-0116

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Inappropriate implementation in Compositing in Google Chrome prior to 97.0.4692.71 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the contents of the Omnibox (URL bar) via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
• Google Chrome: before 97.0.4692.71 — fixed in 97.0.4692.71

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 97.0.4692.71. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1272250
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5PAGL5M2KGYPN3VEQCRJJE6NA7D5YG5X/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQJB6ZPRLKV6WCMX2PRRRQBFAOXFBK6B/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRWRAXAFR3JR7XCFWTHC2KALSZKWACCE/
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1272250
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5PAGL5M2KGYPN3VEQCRJJE6NA7D5YG5X/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQJB6ZPRLKV6WCMX2PRRRQBFAOXFBK6B/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRWRAXAFR3JR7XCFWTHC2KALSZKWACCE/

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