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CVE-2022-2861

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2022-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 104.0.5112.101 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to inject arbitrary scripts into WebUI via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
• Google Chrome: before 104.0.5112.101 — fixed in 104.0.5112.101

How to fix

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

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
• https://crbug.com/1346236
• 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/1346236
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/

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