CVE-2022-2856: Google Chromium Intents Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-08-18
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents in Google Chrome on Android prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed a remote attacker to arbitrarily browse to a malicious website via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
Google Chrome: before 104.0.5112.101; before 104.0.5112.102 — fixed in 104.0.5112.101, 104.0.5112.102

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 104.0.5112.101, 104.0.5112.102. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
https://crbug.com/1345630
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
https://crbug.com/1345630
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-2856

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