CVE-2022-2296

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Chrome OS Shell in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific user interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via direct UI interactions.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
Google Chrome: before 103.0.5060.114 — fixed in 103.0.5060.114

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 103.0.5060.114. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1327087
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/202208-35
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/1327087
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/202208-35

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