Inappropriate implementation in WebShare in Google Chrome prior to 97.0.4692.71 allowed a remote attacker to potentially hide the contents…

published 2022-02-11 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-15332

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3 links 1

Google Chrome 97.0.4692.71

debian ubuntu opensuse

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 97.0.4692.71-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0118

chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0118

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 97.0.4692.71-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
opera openSUSE Leap 15.4 NonFree 85.0.4341.28-lp154.2.5.1
opera openSUSE Leap 15.3 NonFree 83.0.4254.27-lp153.2.33.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 97.0.4692.71-bp153.2.54.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11739-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0110-1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0047-1 openSUSE-SU-2022:0014-1

crbug.com/1238631 advisory

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0118 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebShare

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

crbug.com https://crbug.com/1238631 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

crbug.com /1238631
exploit, issue-tracking, patch, vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5PAGL5M2KGYPN3VEQCRJJE6NA7D5YG5X/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KQJB6ZPRLKV6WCMX2PRRRQBFAOXFBK6B/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRWRAXAFR3JR7XCFWTHC2KALSZKWACCE/
vendor-advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2022/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-0118
NVD CVE-2022-0118

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Summary