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CVE-2022-2164

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.53 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass discretionary access control via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
• Google Chrome: before 103.0.5060.53 — fixed in 103.0.5060.53

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 103.0.5060.53. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html
• https://crbug.com/1268445
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BQRTR4SIUNIHLLPWTGYSDNQK7DYCRSB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H2C4XOJVIILDXTOSMWJXHSQNEXFWSOD7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html
• https://crbug.com/1268445
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5BQRTR4SIUNIHLLPWTGYSDNQK7DYCRSB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H2C4XOJVIILDXTOSMWJXHSQNEXFWSOD7/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25

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